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James Dailey blogged about the gensis of mifos giving some background information in into what happened during development of mifos 1.0.
During this time Terry Wong also wrote a report About Evolving Mifos Product and Architecture based on the code base at that time.
Mifos 1.1.x (Nov 2006 - July 2008, last 1.1.x release was October 2008)
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