ZybaCafe 4.0.0-Alpha released

Today, after nearly a year of design and months of coding, I am proud and happy to announce the first alpha release of ZybaCafe is available.
This release should be good to go in nearly any situation, but before I declare it stable I am giving users a chance to test it and try it out for themselves. Please send any requests for changes or contributions to me as we move into a test-phase.

ZybaCafe is a complete, multiplatform tool for managing internet-cafes and cybercafe’s. The core program is free software under the GNU GPL version 2.0 or later. ZybaCafe builds on the success of it’s parent-project direqcafe with many new enhancements that will greatly reduce the overhead in managing a cybercafe, while also being significantly easier to use.
The use of a complete postgresql RDBMS in the backend ensures data-integrity and simple network independence which has allowed ZybaCafe to go beyond the limitations of direqcafe as a true next generation cybercafe admin tool.

Even more exciting is the very powerful and fully integrated plugin tools which allows ZybaCafe to focus on being very good at it’s core task (cybercafe management) while making it easy to let it integrate with other tools such as accounting or CRM packages.

The alpha release has proven quite stable and very low on resources in our internal testing and as we move into external testing now, we look forward to seeing how it can grow.

My personal thanks to my employers OpenLab International for adopting the projec. ZybaCafe long went past the limitations of what a little one-man hobyist project can achieve. As of this version it became a company project with the full development team involved.
My sincere thanks – I couldn’t have done it without you guys.

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