On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:02 -0300, "Ricardo Aráoz" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I have not had that itch, so.... > But I should point out that you don't need to look for alternatives for > sage, pegasus, etc., you need to look for FOSS software that will solve > your needs. After all, I'm certain you had, or will have, to compromise > in order to adopt Sage, Pegasus, etc, well maybe you should be equally > willing to compromise adopting OpenERP. > Failing this, you might consider the cost of modifying these FOSS > solutions to tailor them to your needs, versus the cost of buying > closed software. Evaluating of course the fact that you'll be adapting > to closed software while getting a tailored solution in FOSS with the > possibility of changing that tailoring whenever you want according to > *your* needs and not the needs of Sun Systems or whoever.
Most if not all of the mid-to-upper range ERP closed-source offerings can be fairly heavily extended and customised with official SDKs. They would not survive otherwise, since they will rarely fit all a customer's needs in their standard form. Customers would of course be paying a professional services fee to somebody to do that, but the same would be true for a FOSS solution - very few would have the in-house expertise to adapt any ERP package beyond customising reports or adding basic entry fields. > > Failing all of these, you always have the choice of running those closed > apps inside a nice open source virtual machine in your Linux box. ;c) I think there's definitely big potential in hosting the closed stuff on virtual Windows servers either in-house or in a bunker somewhere, and utilising Linux and RDP clients on cheap hardware at the customer site. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
