Bitnami Odoo is now available on Mac OS!

Odoo (or OpenERP 8) is not only available for Linux and Windows platforms, but is now available for Mac OS on Bitnami!

In case you are not familar with Odoo, it is an enterprise resource platform from which you can manage all your business operations - from supply chain and project management, to accounting and HR. Out of the box, Odoo includes messaging, sales CRM and reporting modules. The 6 official Odoo apps below show just how much you get within this one application. 

• Front-end apps: website builder, blog and e-commerce 
• Sales management apps: CRM, point of sales and quotation builder 
• Business operations apps: project management, inventory, manufacturing, accounting and purchasing 
• Marketing apps: mass mailing, lead automation, events, surveys, forums and live chat 
• Human Resources apps: employee directory, enterprise social networks, leave management, timesheets and fleet management 
• Productivity apps: business intelligence, instant messaging and notes 

Bitnami Odoo is available as native installers (available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS),virtual machines and cloud images for Amazon EC2, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

You can try Odoo by launching a free server now.

You can find more information about how to manage your installation on our wiki. Have some questions? We would be happy to answer them on our community forum.

Dolibarr ERP & CRM now available in BitNami

We are happy to announce that Dolibarr ERP & CRM is now available as part of the BitNami library. Dolibarr is an open source, free software Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) package for small and medium companies, foundations and freelancers.

BitNami makes it easy to install and manage Dolibarr by bundling the application with all of its required dependencies (web server, database, and so on) in an easy to deploy package. You can now download free, ready to run native installers for  Windows, OS X and Linux, virtual machines and Azure and Amazon EC2 cloud images.

If you want to check out this new version, you can instantly launch a free cloud demo server with the BitNami Cloud Launchpad by clicking the button below.

Laurent Destailleur, project leader and main developer of Dolibarr, was kind enough to share with us some details about the project.

1. What is the goal of the Dolibarr application?

The goal of Dolibarr ERP & CRM is to provide an integrated and free software package that provides all features you need to manage your company or foundation.

Dolibarr dashboard

2. What are some of the features of Dolibarr?

Dolibarr provides everything you would expect from a modern ERP and CRM system including:

• Customers, prospects and suppliers directory
• Products and services catalog
• Stock management
• Bank accounts management
• Commercial actions management
• Orders management
• and dozens of other features

Dolibarr can also be extended via external modules available on DoliStore.com

3. Which projects or organizations are using Dolibarr currently? What kind of projects do they use it for?

In France alone, over 100 000 small companies and associations/foundations are using Dolibarr.

4. What do you expect will be the main benefits of having BitNami packages available for Dolibarr?

Dolibarr target audience are people at small companies without necessarily much technical knowledge. Having BitNami packages available will address the need of such users: being able to install Dolibarr, a powerful software package, in few seconds by themselves. Also, though there are already competitors that provide packaged installs for Dolibarr, none provide a package for Mac OS X yet. BitNami makes it easier for those users to get started with Dolibarr.

We are glad Dolibarr is now part of BitNami. Would you like your favorite app to be part of BitNami? Make sure to suggest and vote for it in our contest!

OpenERP v7.0 now available in BitNami

We are happy to announce a new member of the BitNami family: OpenERP, an open source integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP). OpenERP server is written in Python and is modular, allowing you to easily extend or customize its functionality with dozens of extensions.

OpenERP has been a frequently requested application and was a winner of the BitNami bi-weekly packaging contest. You can now download free, ready to run native installers for Linux, virtual machines and Azure & Amazon EC2 images.

OpenERP modules

Want to check OpenERP out without having to install it? Just use the new BitNami Cloud Launchpad service and you can test any BitNami application in the Cloud, for free. Try now OpenERP v7.0 in the cloud.

You have decided! OpenERP to be added to the BitNami library.

It seems that our users are interested in accounting applications. First PhpCompta won our bi-weekly packaging contest a few weeks ago, now OpenERP has been chosen by our users to be added to the BitNami library.

You ask, we execute. As all other winner applications OpenERP will get free native installers, virtual machines and Amazon Cloud Images. But that is not all, since now also Windows Azure Cloud images will be available for each project that win our contest.


OpenERP is a comprehensive suite of business applications including Sales, CRM, Project management, Warehouse management, Manufacturing, Financial management and Human Resources just to name a few.

OpenERP's modular approach allows you to start with one application and add other modules later.

 We continue working on previous winner applications like Chryp, Tiki and ResourceSpace. We are in contact with their developers and they will be released soon in BitNami.


Would you like your favorite app to be part of BitNami? Be sure to suggest and vote for it in our contest!  Once you have voted, remember to share via the Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus buttons to encourage your friends to do the same to help your app climb to the top of the list.