OpenTender - Open Source Tender Management Solution Released
FOR RELEASE
20th FEBRUARY 2008
Open source solutions firm Cybersource Pty. Ltd. today announced the
launch of the OpenTender project. OpenTender delivers a high-quality,
web-based system for managing tenders and vendor responses. OpenTender
is free GPL software and is available for immediate download from
SourceForge.net.
OpenTender allows you to:
- define and create online Request for Tenders (RfT),
- publish these in the form of an online questionnaire to selected
vendor organisations, over the Internet,
- enable those vendors to respond online, and
- manage, store and extract tender response data for review and
analysis in your tool of choice (database, spreadsheet, etc).
"With its introduction, OpenTender reduces the barrier-to-entry for any
public-sector or commercial organisation which seeks to deploy a
highly-functional, open, scalable, online tender management platform,"
said Con Zymaris, OpenTender project lead and CEO of Cybersource Pty.
Ltd. "OpenTender brings online procurement capabilities to every
organisation, government agency or business. And being open source means
OpenTender can be extended to do exactly what an organisation wants."
OpenTender can be installed on a standard LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL,
PHP) application stack with minimal effort. It should also work on other
operating systems (eg, Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac OSX and Windows 2003).
"In designing OpenTender, we decided to build upon the excellent work
done by the LimeSurvey project (http://www.limesurvey.org/). OpenTender
therefore benefits from the ongoing efforts of that development
community. OpenTender exemplifies the immense value and utility of Free
and Open Source Software (FOSS) by allowing one great application to
form the basis of another, benefiting all computer users in the
process," continued Zymaris.
For more information on OpenTender, visit our project web site at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opentender/
Or the wiki:
http://opentender.wiki.sourceforge.net/
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About Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
Cybersource, founded in early 1991, is the second longest running open
source solutions company in the world. We have been demonstrating the
better value, security and robustness of open source technologies to
our clients since then. We also produce products like:
- The Small Business Linux Server: the best value small business server on the market and 75% less expensive than the Microsoft alternative.
- Datasafe: Stores copies of all your documents. Easy and direct access
to all past revisions.
- Cybersource TrimClient; All the advantages of a thin-client with
none of the disadvantages.
http://www.cybersource.com.au
Spokesperson/Contact: Con Zymaris
Phone: +61 3 9428 6922
Email: info@cybersource.com.au
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