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> 2. Look on this forum and on OpenERP website. Obviously the current focus of > Tiny company is not to have a complete product but to sale "partnerships" Well, don't get it wrong they put their resource on the product, not on the sales like others, that's why they are so right. If you look at such commit logs, you'll see that M. Pinckaers, both the creator of the product and CEO commited at something like 2 A.M.: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openerp/openobject-addons/trunk/revision/1845 If they were putting resources on the sales instead, a salesman would just have call you to propose you some costly deal so he could make money himself out of that deal. So may be they are really bad at marketing, selling and all, but for sure they are putting resources on the features. > It lacks essential features (cost estimation, cost control, scheduling, etc I think cost estimation is there, cost control might be quite doable too. Now scheduling must be achieved manually or externally coded. No open source ERP can afford building an "MRP2" system like you'll encounter in SAP R/3, that's out of their scope and commercial target. I've no problem with that, you should just know it, that's the first thing we check with our customers actually. Most are OK with it. @sraps > prohibitive costs Well, for sure only a few cases will drive to cost savings compared to existing packaged commercial ERP's. It doesn't mean the there isn't a huge, very huge market room. And also, my analysis is that all other generic open source ERP's I could tried (and I spent a lot of time trying) will drive to MUCH higher costs (IMHO the nearest oss ERP's would just double the total cost of ownership at least, sometimes much more). > in most countries it is possible to buy 2-5 people hours for 1 people hour > cost of Tiny's support Agree a bit, but they must also drive some revenues and some of the Tiny.be employees are living in western countries. Now they are doing quite well, they are relatively cheap compared to Compiere/Openbravo, not to speak about proprietary ERP's. That's actually why Compiere got forked by so many Adempiere and possibly Openbravo guys later on (until those last ones got crazy too). And even if it's expensive, it's still a huge advantage to integrate open source ERP's in developing countries because: * usually big proprietary ERP's dont fit out of the box (the market wes to small to attract them) * the license cost of a proprietary ERP is almost the same as in western countries (because they should pay their engineering+sale staff, the poorer the product, the more costly it gets to market/maintain; and also because they don't want western companies to base their IT in developing countries). So given that open source usually requires more integration man work to work around the bugs+verticalization, it's a huge competitive advantage to be an ERP integrator in developing countries overall I think. But yeah, you are a bit right, they should have a support free and cheaper partnership option for emerging countries. But that's not that easy as they should also ensure official partners are trained enough not to ruin their reputation (ERP is hard as you may know). My 0.02$ Raphaël Valyi [/code] ------------------------ http://www.smile.fr -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openerp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=26379#26379 -------------------- m2f --------------------
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