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 [https://erpnext.com](https://erpnext.com)
 
-Includes Accounting, Inventory, CRM, Sales, Purchase, Projects, HRMS. Built on Python / MySQL.
+Includes Accounting, Inventory, CRM, Sales, Purchase, Projects, HRMS. Built on Python / MariaDB.
 
 ERPNext is built on [frappe](https://github.com/frappe/frappe)