Version 4.0 of hipergate is available for download at SourceForge. The most important major improvements of this new version over 3.0 are:

1. Campaigns Manager
There is a new module for managing marketing campaigns with sales targets for product and region between two dates.

2. Contact Manager

2.1 Security groups for companies and contact
For each company or contact it is now possible to restrict access only to a given set of user groups.

2.2 Manage suppliers
Suppliers can now be stored and managed independently of ordinary contacts.

2.3 Send commercial proposals and quotations
From the opportunity edition form there is now a new feature for sending a commercial proposal by e-mail and keep a copy of it attached to the contact.

2.4 Create a meeting for an opportunity
A direct link for creating a meeting related to a sales opportunity

2.5 Create a phone call for an opportunity
A direct link for creating a phone call related to a sales opportunity

2.6 Link opportunities to campaigns
Opportunities can be linked to campaigns for tracking its effectivity.

2.7 Assign salesman to a company or contact
A salesman can be now directly assigned as owner of a customer company.
A new filter allows to display which customer accounts are assigned to each salesman.

2.8 Assign geographic zone to a company or contact
Both companies and contacts can now be assigned to geographic zones.

3. Calendar

3.1 Week Calendar
There is a new week view of the calendar.

3.2 Timetables
The new timetables submodule allows defining working/non working time for employees taking it into account when looking for available resources.

3.3 Display out of order resources
When a resource is out of order, show its condition at the activity edition form when trying to choose it.

3.4 Create employee when creating a user
When creating a new user, add an employee during the same process.

3.5 Fellow/Employee Loader
A batch loader of employees from a flat text file.

4. Project Manager

4.1 Project Status Snapshot
At the project edition form there is now a new summary of duties and incidents.

4.2 Working time reports
A new interface allows quick entry of a weekly work report of performed duties.

4.3 Classify duties by types
A new type column has been added to the duties table allowing a better classification of them whilst preparing reports.

4.4 Different types of resources
Resources can now be of different types and directly associated to other application entities. New resource types are: company, individual, employee,
application user and supplier.

4.5 Team Manager - Duties by resource
A new view of duties being performed by each resource has been added as a tool for team management.

5. Forum

5.1 Display days with posts
At message listing highlight the days which have posts.

5.2 Manage forum subscriptions
Subscribe to a forum for receiving new messages by e-mail.

6. Virtual Library

6.1 Document check-out / check-in
A check-out / check-in protocol has been added for providing a way of keeping documents locked to other users whilst editing them.

7. Shop

7.1 Manage Sale Points
Different Sale Points can now be defined and associated to orders and other application objects.

7.2 Product Fares
Different fares can now be specified for each product, and it is possible to assign specific fares to customers.

7.3 Define Product Bundles
Define product bundles for selling a set of products like a single one.

7.4 Bulk change of orders and invoices status
At the orders listing page, change status of several orders at a time.

8. WebMail

8.1 New e-mails portlet
At the home page, add a new portlet notifying new e-mails.

8.2 Spam filter
A spam filter has been added to the WebMail module.

8.3 Create mail account when creating a user
When creating a new user, add a WebMail account during the same process.

8.4 Speed improvements
The whole WebMail module has been re-engineered for faster download of new e-mails.

9. Security enhancements

9.1 Verify WorkArea rights for user
For each page request verify user permissions on current WorkArea.

9.2 Password Expiration
From the administration interface, set a password expiration date or must change upon next logon.

9.3 Password retrieval
A procedure for having the password re-send to the main e-mail.

more info New version 4.0

A new patch necessary for running hipergate on Tomcat 6.0.18 is available at SourceForge. https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=2218455&group_id=89905&atid=591822

more info Patch for Tomcat 6.0.18

Patch 3.0.40 has been recently published at SourceForge. This patch is required for running hipergate with PostgreSQL 8.2 or 8.3

more info Patch for PostgreSQL 8.3

Ya está disponible para descargar la nueva versión 3.0.6 Esta nueva edición de hipergate incluye cambios y mejoras en todos los módulos funcionales, siendo, además, plenamente compatible hacia atrás con la versión anterior 2.1.

more info New 3.0 version

Hispalinux, in cooperation with the Madrid Chamber of Commerce, as given hipergate the I Free Software based Innovation Award. The jury, composed of members from Hispalinux, the Chamber of Commerce, Madrid City Council, Telefónica I+D, Hewlett Packard & Sun Microsystems, chose hipergate as the most outstanding free software development of Madrid.

more info Free Software Award

Next October the 5th hipergate will be present at Galicia TIC 2004.

Sergio Montoro will share a session with Josep Lluis de la Rosa Esteve (Agents Inspired Technologies)  for talking about optimizing relationships with customer by using information technologies.

View conferences program

more info hipergate at Galicia TIC 2004

The II IBM Linux PartnerWorld meeting for Spain will take place next September the 23rd at IBM offices in Madrid, Calle Corazón de María.

hipergate is a member of IBM PartnerWorld supporting WebSphere running on pSeries servers, both under Linux or AIX.

more info II IBM Linux PartnerWorld meeting

hipergate will be present between the 10th and the 13th of June at the Finaki Meeting of Computing and Telecomunications 2004.

From 1998 Finaki organices a prestigious event for IT Top Managers.

This year the key speakers will be Miguel de Icaza (GNOME Foundation), Alfons Cornellá (Infonomia.com) and Luis Huete (IESE & Harvard Business School).

more info Finaki 2004

Between the 24th and the 30th of July 2004 hipergate will participate in the Business Mission to San Francisco organised by The American Chamber of Commerce in Spain, The Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona and The Chamber of Commerce of Madrid.

The key speakers at the opening act sponsored by Cuatrecasas will be: Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor of California, Josep Miquel Piqué President of the technical clusters networks of Catalunya and Mateu Hernandez Chief Executive Officer of Barcelona Activa.

The 6 days mission will include visits to Cisco Systems, IBM, Palo Alto Research Center, Agilent y Sun Microsystems.

There will be also a meeting between venture capital firms and high technology companies and several forums for commercial exchange.

more info Business Visit to San Francisco

hipergate has been nominee for the Internet Global Congress 2004 award for digital innovation at the category of small enterprises projects.

hipergate competes for the first place with VozTelecom, a platform to the creation of advanced communication IP-Telephony services, and e-polite, an application to establish rules for the outgoing mail messages.

The IGC Award Ceremony will take place during the Internet Global Congress Dinner on Thursday May 13 (Hotel Princesa Sofía, Barcelona).

More information

more info hipergate nominee at Internet Global Congress awards for digital innovation

Spain has turned into one of the most active countries in Europe in development and adoption of Free Software.

This is the conclusion reached by the White Book of Free Software in Spain coordinated by Alberto Abella. This document identifies 200 free software solution providers, 100 user communities and 180 education centers where free software is a daily reality.

The most importat conclusions of The White Book highlight the leading position of Spain in adoption and practice of free software.

Linux market share is still small, partly because the free software companies are most small or medium sized enterprises with limited access to mass media.

The public administration is being the best supporter of free software technology but its adoption is still limited to schools of Extremadura and Andalucía.

Source: madrid+d (spanish)

more info Free Software Development in Spain

Next Wednesday the 13th of May, inside the Customer Relationships Management Track of IGC 2004 in Barcelona, Sergio Montoro Ten will present the conference Customer Management at No Cost, based on the experiences gained with hipergate as a CRM platform free of licensing costs.

The Congress IGC is being held for the sixth year and focuses on innovation and knowledge, experiences and practical cases, and cutting-edge services and products. It is therefore an opportunity for businessmen, technicians and social agents to find solutions to optimise their resources and make the best use of the advantages offered by the Internet and the New Technologies.

IGC 2004 - Fira de Barcelona - 10th/14th May 2004

more info hipergate at IGC 2004

From the 18th to the 20th of May KnowGate will show hipergate 2.0 at ExpoManagement 2004 in Madrid.

ExpoManagement is the most important gathering of executives in the world.

3,500 attendants hear the speeches of the greatest specialists in management. A thematic trade show with over 21.000 visitors complements the congress.

During three days the key aspects of new technologies and entrepreneurial trends are analyzed and rules for better competition are recommended.

Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I (IFEMA) Madrid
Stand E-47 (in front of Auditorium C)

Congress Information by HSM Group

more info hipergate at ExpoManagement

A new Partners Private Area is now open.

This section contains:

• News for partners only.
• Latest builds done on a daily basis.
• Online Translation tools.
• Technical reference documents.
• Marketing materials for product promotion.
• Logotypes.
• Interesting Links.
• Press Directory.

more info New Partners Private Area

hipergate version 2.0 has entered testing stage and it is scheduled for the begining of March 2004.

Among the new features :

• Unicode characters handling.
• Improved Mozilla support.
• Programmer's Guide in English.
• Customer's Bank Accounts Management.
• Geographic Thesauri.
• Sales Forecasting.
• Oportunity Win/Loss reports.
• Fully integrated Webmail.
• To-Do list and incoming phone calls registration.
• Newsgroups e-mail subscriptions management.

more info Version 2.0 Announce

jars.com has recently rated hipergate 1.1 among top 25% Java resources.
Global scoring was:

 Presentation : 195 AppletPerfect: 300 Function : 190 Originality : 250 ------------------------------------------- Total : 935 (out of a possible 1000.) 

more info Rating jars.com top 25%

Release 1.1.0 of the hipergate's Installation Guide is now available. There are several changes in this version:

• Simplification of the quick install (2)
• More comments on the contents of the distribution package (5)
• Some examples for Windows 2000 parameters in the configuration chapter (7)
• Add the apendix about configuring web server farms under HTTP and EJB services (JBoss/WebLogic)

more info Installation Guide updated

hipergate will be present from the 18th to 20th of february 2004 at Open Source World Conference
in Málaga (Spain)

more info Open Source World Conference

Latest hipergate release (1.1.0) is now available on the download section of the website.

more info hipergate 1.1.0 Released

We are planning a new release for late December which includes the following improvements:

• Port to Bea WebLogic.
• Revision of the Windows 2000 port.
• Some minor improvements in the PL/SQL Stored Procedures for Oracle 8/9 and PostgreSQL 7.x
• Add the DOM hive to source distribution for those users who want to compile the full proyect

more info Christmas work plan

Due a hard disk failure our main server (vlx1) had an unscheduled downtime for about 8 hours last friday 5th of December, from 15:00 to 23:00 CET.

Our ISP provided us with a server for the week-end. It has been a little hard but we've finished restoring all services this afternoon.

Please forgive us for any inconvenience you could have experienced. We've added a second server installation to our work plan for next year.

more info Site restored

We have just upgrade the online demo to version 1.0.5.

Now we have two branches of JSP pages in spanish and english. We will publish the translation process soon, so you will be able to translate hipergate to your own language.

more info Multilingual demo

Release 1.0.5 has been placen in the download section. This are the main changes since 1.0.4:

ENGLISH VERSION
Now shipping JSP pages with english literals.

DATABASE DUMPS
Added binary database dumps for Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL.

CRM
New form for creating a Contact with a Company and a single Address all in one.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Fixed a bug that caused a NullPointerException when trying to delete a Project.

SCHEDULER
Fixed a bug that caused SingleThreadExecutor to raise a SQLException.

SHOP
Fixed a bug that caused view v_orders not to be properly created

WEBBUILDER
Fixed a bug at Traditional template that caused it miswrite some spacer.gif image references.

more info New Build 1.0.5

Screenshots are available in the docs area of the website, as requested by several users.

demo website is still only in spanish language, but soon we will release version 1.0.5 with multilingual support.

more info Screenshots

hipergate release 1.0.4 is available on the downloads section. It includes all functional modules mentioned in the website page, and you have a working version (in spanish) in the demo server.

Althought it is a beta release, we have made big improvements on the source code and we consider it realy stable. By now the front-end part is only available in spanish, but we are adding a neutral language markup tags in the CVS copy of the front-end part.

more info Release 1.0.4

We have initiated the transition of our CVS server to the one hosted by SourceForge. In the CVS page on our website we explain what is CVS, how do we use it and how can you use it also.

more info CVS

We are receiving first visits to our website. Although we didn't pretend to publish the product on news portals and open source websites until next 15th, a little test on two Linux websites gave us some users who tell us about the website and request copies of hipergate.

You can subscribe to the mailing lists in order to keep in touch with us.

more info First visits (Thanks!)

hipergate installation guide is now available in the docs section.

more info Install Guide

We've just released the concepts and architecture document, available on HTML and PDF formats.

more info Concepts and Architecture

We have a running copy of hipergate 1.0.4 for demostrative purpouses, but we have not finished the english translation yet. Nevertheless you can change your language to Spanish (click on the top flag) and use the "Visita de Invitado" link to have a look.

As usual, you are invited to leave your comments in the support forums and mailing lists, and send your bugs through the bugtracker.

more info Guest Login (Spanish Only)

hipergate's XSLT schemas and DTDs are now published in our website, so absolute filenames are eliminated from XML files. Available files:

• entities.dtd
• microsite.xsd
• pageset.xsd

more info Schemas XSLT

bugtracker, forums and mailing lists archives just finished. Soon will close downloads section so we can open portal to the community :)

more info Bugtracker, forums and mailings lists

First release build of hipergate is available. This code shall be considered as beta quality, although most of the parts are quite well tested.

Install and configuration procedures and manuals will be available soon. We have published the library and javadocs first in order to promote the use of hipergate, but a sample kit of JSP pages will be also available for download in the next days. This sample kit will be based on the online demo (that will be also finished realy soon)

more info First builds

We are finishing some parts of the website, we hope everything will be finished for Sep 31th

more info Beta Website