BOS (Biochemistry Order System)
The FOS Order System has been developed by Chema Bassols and Herman Parmo at the Department of Molecular Cell Biology (former Biochemistry Department) at the Institute for Cancer Research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital (DNR), Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.

FOS is a purchase order management system specifically designed for DNR's Biochemistry Dep. We hope to make it an open source tool in the near future.

FOS stands for "FOS Order System".

Some people continuously find different meanings of the "F" in FOS like: "Future", "Failure", "Fatal", "Fuchsia" or "Fantastic"; but the truth is that the "F" stands for FOS and FOS means "FOS Order System".

Change log:
2011 Sep. 04.Beta 1.0 Initial
2011 Sep. 17.Beta 1.1 "May the FOS be with us": added new fields and logo
2011 Sep. 26.Beta 1.2 "New look": colorful menu
2011 Sep. 30.Beta 1.3  "I'm coming": partial-receive and final-price done, new shell is born, first 100% working version
2011 Oct. 02.Beta 1.4 "FOSsilized": last Beta 1.x
2011 Oct. 07.Beta 2.0 "FOS&Roll": the new shell is looking good
2011 Oct. 10.Beta 2.1 "FOSsick": this is getting better
2011 Oct. 16.Beta 2.2 "FOSxXx": old FOS.1.x functions removed
2011 Oct. 23.Beta 2.3 "FOSalmost": 99%, it's time to show it
2011 Oct. 27.Beta 2.4 "inFOS": html and mysql security added
2011 Oct. 31.Beta 2.5 "Halloween": viewing mode and internal notification level
2011 Nov. 03.Beta 2.6 "November Rain": warnings regarding duplication and many improvements
Nov. 04 now we are "BOS", Nov. 07 real data, Nov. 30 No more order books!
2012 Jan. 06.Beta 2.7 "Hopes": sending email, multi-order, show only my own orders, price required and lots of improvements
2012 Jan. 31.Beta 2.8 "turBOS": multi-receive, currencies, global-total and much more
Mar. 10 now we are "COS" too (Cell-Biology Order System)
2013 Nov. 10.1.0 "FOSphore": first "final" version, lock system, edit received, vendor deactivation, reports, css for tables
2017 Apr. 17.2.0 "BOSwanna": new groups, full categories and many improvements
2017 Jun. 18.2.1 "BOSSOB": upgraded to PHP 5.6 and MySQL 5.7, Calendar picker
2017 Jul. 01.2.2 "BOStezo": "Group by" in "Received" (boring version for non admin users)
2017 Jul. 06.2.3 "BOoSt": now "Group by" in "Received" also for non admin users under "show only my own orders"
2018 Jan. 06.2.4 "BOSque": New user class "PIs", new "Grouped by Item"

FOS in science :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Fos

FOS on thefreedictionary.com : http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/FOS



Acknowledgments:

I would like to thank Harald Stenmark, Anne Gro Bergersen and Eva Rønning, for their patience, support and optimism during the development of this project.

I also wish to thank:
- Morten Johansen for providing me server space on Invitro and for all his technical help.
- Lionel Tcatchoff for many fruitful discussions about the "order" process.
- Kay Schink for his recommendations about email and security.
- Alexandra Goscinski for proof-reading.
- Simon Jarvis for his GNU php-currency-conversion script.php.
- jQuery team for their JavaScript library https://github.com/jquery/jquery.
- pChart team for their PHP class freamework to create charts http://www.pchart.net.

Special thanks should be given to all the Molecular Cell Biology Department who helped provide a priceless feedback about the system.