Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: > >>Lan's prediction: OSS will never crack ERP. Nevernevernever.
Depends on what you mean by "crack". It seems it already has to some degree in Europe because the Nexedi guys keep busy. I bet all the C??'s care about the bottom line and a cheaper and simpler ERP solution definitely affects it. > ERP is an attempt to fit multiple unique businesses to one piece of > software owned by another business. Not necessarily. ERP5 and I suspect the other big boys in the business are just toolkits with which to build an ERP system. Every system takes a great deal of custom code. That's part of why they are so expensive and hard to do. > 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 why I think ERP5 (and open source) has a chance at this. ERP5 is not one piece of software. It is zope, mysql, some libraries and templates. You start small with just what you need and work your way up exactly as you describe. > 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. Open source does this every day? I thought you said open source could never crack the ERP market? > For an even pithier explanation of why open source will not do this see: > http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html Then you say open source will not do this. -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com 1-877-MY-COPILOT -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
