Lan Barnes wrote:
Lan's prediction: OSS will never crack ERP. Nevernevernever.
Agreed. However, your reasons are incorrect.
ERP is an attempt to fit multiple unique businesses to one piece of
software owned by another business.
As such, it is *always* doomed to failure. Open source will *never*
attack the problem that way.
The best "ERP" systems are those which got built alongside the business
as it grew. They are small applications which do what some specific
group wants in order to streamline their job.
This is the big advantage that XML has. If everybody is using XML,
people can see what data a group is tracking and ask to get regular exports.
Well-done ERP is nothing more than a *big* database with all of the
corporate data in it and small, specific programs which chew that data.
Open source does this every day. Look at sourceforge, slashdot, phpbb, etc.
For an even pithier explanation of why open source will not do this see:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
-a
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