Hi mrmike, Explaining how OpenERP works would be too long, so I let you investigate on this with the doc. But yeah, basically OpenERP is a client-server architecture. You can either dialog with the server directly via webservices (XML/RPC or NetRPC) using the GTK client (what you download in the bundle). Contrary to what it looks like, the GTKClient is actually a thing client storing no data other itself but asking everyting to the central server (even the menus and their translation).
You can also connect to the OpenERP server using a standard HTTP browser like in the online demo. But to do that you need to install an extra server layer called eTiny witch translate NetRPC to HTPP back and forth (again no business logic in that layer). Also, for e-commerce, I advice you to use the Magento open source e-commerce: http://www.magentocommerce.com/ You'll hardely find anything better and it's open source and free. And the good news is that we just released a Magento/OpenERP connector as an open source project as well which is fully documented here: http://code.google.com/p/magento-openerp-smile-synchro/ Finally, you can find on this forum some users who favored OpenERP over Quickbooks. Having the legal accounting 100% correct directly from OpenERP is not easy yet (unlike the analityc accounting which is great), but this is possible as you may discover. Good luck with OpenERP. Raphaël Valyi. ------------------------ http://www.smile.fr _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
