mcaresr, Welcome back to the reason ;-) Yes I know much more than I could currently tell what you can feel about Openbravo, I've been mistaken myself for a month and even quite longer for my bosses, but luckily for me no more. Other, former partners, could already speak more openly about that: http://cheli.aradaen.com/2009/03/03/los-fichajes-de-openbravo/
Well, strange complain because officially they do care about Latin America: http://www.openbravo.com/about-us/events/360-business-tour/ But it just remembers me the interview of their CEO ( http://www.perspektive89.com/2008/manel_sarasa_ceo_openbravo_interview_open_source_meets_business ) when they went to Florida telling that Openbravo was a resounding success "all over the world" and blablabla and the best example of that was localization, France being cited as first example while I can tell you that their isn't even a single deployment of their ERP in France.... With Openbravo, it's always successful elsewhere, somewhere you can't preferably look at ;-) Don't be naive, OpenERP is not perfect either, but it's certainly an order of magnitude better (both in term of technology and features) and a few third party at least have success deploying it (the company where I'm working being one). All this being said, you have to keep in mind that, at least in rich countries (might be easier where the proprietary market is not mature), OpenERP is only marginally competitive against well established cheap standard generic proprietary ERP's. Now it's improving steadily. Just compare the 4.x series to the 5.x series... So our hope is that we focus on the few companies where it shines already (and there are) while making our best for a broader native out of the box competitivity in the very next versions. Also I believe that currently only extremely skilled (at ERP and coding) consultants could make a sustainable profit out of it, but it's already better than with Openbravo for which I would say it's still impossible as a third party. Now, you'll notice a huge difference between Openbravo and OpenERP. At Openbravo their is always a fucking smiling salesman to answer your questions while Tiny barely answers sale emails. Still OpenERP spend their little resource on dev and in an open source business that's what matters the most. I believe you better have to call them. You can also hang on the #openobject channel on freenode, we or them are often around. There are a few guys from latin america indeed (like ovnicraft from Equator). The Brazilian list on Launchpad went from 5 to 30 guys the last 2 months with around 5 localization messages per day... I'll myself start a small consulting company in Brazil in less than 2 months. So good luck to you and stay tuned. Raphaël Valyi. -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=36915#36915 -------------------- m2f --------------------
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