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Parthenon is now available under GPLv3 and the Skeleton Application is available under the MIT License. When I was doing sales calls with companies about Parthenon part of the risk factor was what if I decided this project wasn't viable as a business. Every time, I said I would open source the code and continue to work on it. Well, I decided a year ago that I needed to change my approach and focus on a single area instead of trying to solve lots of problems as Parthenon does. So I created BillaBear, which uses Parthenon, to focus on billing. Which is actually building the billing system I wanted in Parthenon.

Today is the release of Parthenon 2.1. It's a small release putting in some nice little features before big drive to build a powerful billing system starts. It has one key feature which is the Data Export Module. Which I think will be super useful to companies that deal with data exports from their system. Then there are a few minor features which will help will small little issues.

Today we're announcing the release of Parthenon 2.0. With this release, there are updates like all other releases. But the main change is that Parthenon is now available under the Business Source License. This means that it is now free to use Parthenon for non-production use, such as: development, testing, and evaluation. We're also granting an additional usage for production use to those generating less than $5,000 US Dollars a month. Previously, Parthenon was only available for a fee.

In software development, free open-source software (FOSS) has always been important and without FOSS, IT would not be the same as it is today. It is hard to think of a company in this world today that isn’t relying on FOSS for part of its tech stack. For many developers, FOSS is a major part of being a developer and they feel like contributing to FOSS is something they, as a good developers, must do. Some loath the idea of commercial software. So it’s with this in mind, we feel like we should explain why we choose not to use the FOSS model. Instead, we have gone for commercial licensing.

Every company needs a way to manage its application and deal with issues such as customers locked out of their account or having problems using the application, and staff maintaining the data required for the application. All these things need to be done by the staff using software to run their business. This is why we built our Symfony Admin system, Athena, a place where you can control what is happening with your business.

What is Parthenon​

Parthenon is a Symfony bundle to allow companies to focus on their core business and have the generic business logic handled for them.

After over a decade of developing systems for a range of businesses, we've noticed that the majority of businesses have roughly the same requirements and needs. All that resulted in was teams of developers all building generic business requirements—and not focusing on their company's core business logic. Parthenon is our attempt to provide a solution for this. Parthenon brings the generic business functionality allowing companies to build Symfony applications and focus on their core business logic instead of generic business use cases. While allowing systems to grow as the company grows.