Hi, not very constructive, but still, I just wanted to tell I think all those moves are great. I like lowering the entry barrier for the community (integration of comments in the online doc system, easy download of extra addons) and the integration server thing which is one of things a large company like ours (Smile.fr) is expecting the most I think. I think wikis won't do well with free community. Adempiere or Rails have such free wikis for instance, but nothing good consolidates in those free wikis. Given the alternative a managed system is much better. People can still write blog post, Google being the best best ponderated wiki navigator. So I think bazaar driven doc + web feedbak interfaces are a good system.
It's always easier to criticize than build something. Anyone should bare in mind that lots of the naysayers aren't doing themselves the half of what Tiny is proving for free to the world, so those should think twice before criticizing. The fact is that OpenERP did great so far and went where no other oss ERP ever went. Oh yeah there are floss ERP's around like Ofbiz or Adempiere, but IMHO they are very far from approaching and adoption rates show that an ERP can't come without a strong editor behind, like it or not. You can find developers thrilled for REST architectures, web design, social features... but not a lot of them are willing to kill themselves implementing an accounting system according to the last local law for free, so at some point there should be paid professionnals to maintain all that legal crap. A few other ERP's had on the contrary way more funding behind a god editor but almost no real community, talking here about Compiere, Openbravo, ERP5 (to a lesser extend) and most of them are now finding them in a dead end, mostly because of bad design decisions where taken for shot term features and hence profit. So I think OpenERP is now here to last, while there are some rough edges (feature quality essentially), I see an overall clean and smart design with groundbreaking adoption rates all over the world, so just keep it great. As all other partners we are eager to see quality improvement too (may be through the integration server, testsuite and API consolidation) expecting it will help cutting integration costs even more and hence be competitive in a larger business scope. Raphael Valyi ------------------------ http://www.smile.fr -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34081#34081 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
