Fabien Pinckaers, the founder and current CEO of Odoo, started to develop his first software product, TinyERP in 2005. Three years later, the name was changed to OpenERP in 2010, and finally, In 2014, the company was renamed Odoo officially, On-Demand-Open-Object in the following years. Odoo is a business management software that includes top software projects like,

• CRM,
• Billing,
• Accounting,
• Manufacturing,
• Warehouse,
• E-commerce,
• Project management,
• Inventory management,
• Health Care, and
• Telecom.

And it is available in both the versions.

Community and Enterprise version

• The Community version is under license LGPL v3 open source version.
• The Enterprise version had some features and services.

Advantages of Odoo

• Low cost of implementation
• High customizability
• Easy integration
• Modular architecture
• Innovative
• Scalable
• Easy UI
• Automation
• Highly Scalable
• Morethan 50 inbuild applications
• Easy to support
• Fully cloud-based

Stages of Odoo

Official Name ReleaseVersionRelease Month and YearTinyERP1.0Feb 20052.0May 20053.0Sep 20054.0Dec 2006OpenERP5.0Apr 20096.0Jan 20116.1Feb 20127.0Dec 2012Odoo8.0Sep 20149.0Oct 201510.0Oct 201611.0Oct 201712.0Oct 201813.0Oct 201914.0Expected on Oct 2020

Odoo S.A (formerly OpenERP S.A) has released the source code is available as open-source. The open core model, which provides subscription-based proprietary enterprise software and cloud-hosted SAAS, in addition to the open-source version.

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