@caonabot > a few years ago I inquire if OpenERP could be use for a Time Sheet System. > The city of New York was looking for a solution, but not a single person in > the forum could answer my inquired. The city decided to go on a different > direction. > This is what happen to the project after 700 million dollars and less than > 3/4 is complete. > http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/12/04/2009-12-04_time_to_punch_this_clock.html > > What a pity.
Upon reading, I ran into thinking of several questions/problems behind this... The first one, thinking of scale of the project is job for OpenERP, is pretty ambitious, not to say more. Moreover "few years ago". Even though marketing statements and webtrends in openerp.com stand that OpenERP is the most advanced ERP software. :) I can only smile about TinyERP at that time in this scale. It is most promising for sure, but still not the most advanced one. Knowing how the contractors are being chosen for this kind of projects, I could easily understand why nobody paid attention to your inquiry. This is not the way it goes. The other reason is that GPL is not for free, and moreover if we supply the code for free, we have to charge money for specific analysis. Which is by the way being done on proprietary software too, in addition to the license costs. Even more, for projects like this. This is why the consultants are being paid big bucks (which are not so big after all, if we divide the k$ with the manhours). One thing that should be done as part of free service is "professional" bugfixing, this improves overall quality of software. I think that this should be improved for OpenERP, for sure. FOSS is not only about reduced costs, there are many other great advances additional to that. Kaspars --------------------------- http://kndati.lv -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=47984#47984 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman2/listinfo/tinyerp-users
