SlapOS is still alpha quality software as of June 30th 2001. Yet, it is no longer in its early development stage. SlapOS has reached a good level of stability thanks to a wide coverage by unit tests and functional tests. It is stable enough to be used on production systems and deploy mission critical ERP applications.
SlapOS early success stories include the provisioning of virtual machines at Nexedi for developers who use a network PC instead of a laptop, unit testing of software, scalability testing of software. SlapOS was used to teach Cloud computing and PaaS to students at Paris 13 University. It was also used to deploy UNG Docs open source Web Office, teach scalability testing and teach ERPs at Instituto Federal Fluminense (IFF) in Brazil.
Four majour customers of ERP5 open source ERP have moved their production systems to SlapOS. A Central Bank has been using ERP5 for currency issuing and global banking since May 30th 2011. An aerospace company is finalizing tests of ERP5 over SlapOS for ERP/CRM applications. ERP5 has been implemented on SlapOS for SANEF UK tolling as well as in another highway tolling company.
Compatible ONE collaborative project uses SlapOS to run scalability tests on NoSQL storages and gather results. SlapOS implementations of sheepdog and kumofs were made for this purpose.
Last, VIFIB hosting company has started alpha testing of SlapOS for devlopers of SaaS and PaaS applications which may be based or not on IaaS. VIFIB supports various stacks such as LAMP, Java or ERP5. It provides Billing as a Service (BaaS) to any software publisher looking for the shortest time to market solution to offer their solutions on the Cloud.