Hello Gerry,
greno wrote: > Just so you understand my perspective, I've spent a good deal of my career > consulting for companies in the Fortune 500. And if TinyERP stays strictly > tied to Postrgresql it stands very very little chance of being adopted by any > of these companies. [...] I guess the question comes down to where TinyERP > sees itself. I wonder whether Tiny or any of its partners are aiming at that size of company? Do you see opportunities for Tiny ERP there against the major commercial vendors and at least one of the established Java-based Open Source ERP suppliers (they hope)? greno wrote: > if I were to propose an ERP solution tied to postgresql in an enterprise that > was Oracle, had all Oracle certified DBA's, had developed hundreds of custom > processes and scripts surrounding Oracle, I would stand zero chance of making > that sale. Agreed. Which is why EnterpriseDB aims for Oracle compatibility with its proprietary extensions to PostgreSQL - to take full advantage of the hard-earned and entrenched Oracle skills. (I wonder whether this is a way forward for Tiny - not to change from Postgres but to partner with EnterpriseDB - but that's nothing to do with me!) I've watched the relentless pressure for one of the other Open Source ERP suppliers to provide an alternative to Oracle partly because of the license cost, and partly of the need for skills that their customers don't have. They headed towards EDB. It made me think that mid-size companies (250-5000) are not as fixated on the big DB suppliers as they used to be. greno wrote: > And it has nothing to do with how good or bad postgresql may be as a database. Well ... if it was bad it would not even be an item for discussion :). Thanks for your reply. Regards, Geoff ------------------------ Seath Solutions Ltd (http://www.seathsolutions.com) _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
