> > many proprietary software are more mature and feature rich. > > Are you sure about that ? I often read such sentences from people having no > real experience with these proprietary softwares. Following a thinking like > "They are really expensive, they must be very good". > > Since a few months I am convinced of the contrary: Open ERP has much more > features, less bugs and his more mature than current proprietary ERP's. (at > least a few months after a new version, so that bugs are fixed). >
I have some experience with proprietary ERPs, mainly with Primavera (http://www.primaverabss.com/ sold in Portuguese speaking countries and Spain) and Eurowin (http://www.eurowin.com/ sold in Spain mainly; recently bought by Sage by the way). My current thinking about 'propietary ERPs' is: "They are REALLY expensive, they are usually good 'enough', they have some epic fails": - Currently they have some features that Open ERP lacks (better accounting localization, amortizations, payrolls, touch-screen POS... they are lot of features I would like to see on Open ERP). - They are more mature than Open ERP in their process, but not so much in their product (they have bugs too and sometimes part of their solutions are 'born small, grew too fast'). - They are not as flexible (sometimes not flexible at all), you have to adapt yourself to them, instead of them adapting to you. - Development is harder than in OS ERPs (you can't access the code, so you lose half of your time trying to figure out how something works) [from what i've been told SAP may be one exception in flexibility]. - They have less bugs (OpenERP seriously needs that 'buildbot' we heard about), but sometimes their bugs get to be bigger (In Open Source you can't hide bugs and lacks; they usually do that in proprietary ERPs for commercial reasons. In Open ERP you can help fix broken things; in the propietary world you have to pray to your software vendor for fixes). - Proprietary software is always more expensive than what you expected (oblivious costs like 'Windows Server 2008 + Terminal Server + SQL Server licenses for the server, plus Office 2003/2007 licenses for each computer that needs to export something to a spreadsheet...' or the usual 'oh!, sorry, your license doesn't cover that little feature you need so much, you'll have to upgrade your license to Premium Ultra Plus Maxi for that...'). The good thing is that Open ERP is improving faster than proprietary software, so it is potentially better :) ------------------------ Borja López Soilán Pexego - www.pexego.es -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42508#42508 -------------------- m2f --------------------
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