Hi Raphaël
> 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. Putting time in developing a great idea is fine. When you try to sell it, not paying attention to your customers is wrong. > 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 Open source is community not a smart a dedicated guy. OpenERP seems to lack a strong community and it is the duty of Tiny company to grow it. > 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. Features alone do not sale a product. You need customer service too. > 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. 1) JobBoss have it and the scheduling module was included in the offer that we received. 2) The offer of over $300,000 did not include scheduling. 3) Our needs for scheduling are not very complicated. We just a need "date calculator", which can be done with 100-200 lines of code. @sraps > 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). Keep in mind that we are a typical small to medium manufacturing shop. If OpenERP cannot satisfy our needs at a comparable price with other commercial products means that it cannot compete in this market niche. By "needs" here I do not refer to customization. Quoting, cost control, scheduling are a must to have for an effective ERP. > And even if it's expensive, it's still a huge advantage to integrate open > source ERP's Yes a know, but about 4 times more expensive than one of the best products for small and medium manufacturing shop is too much. Actually, we have some offers (DBA) at about $20,000 which are better than OpenERP out of the box. The cost bring DBA and OpenERP on par for critical features is more than $20,000. Comparing "nice to have" features is irrelevant when "must to have" is not there. Daniel -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openerp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=26393#26393 -------------------- m2f --------------------
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