@ferchu
> I think that OpenERP should hire accountants / functional consultants to > solve this "focus problem" (we are not talking about "bugs")... Hell I'm fighting that idea like the plague! Let's see the whole picture: we want an affordable open source product, not one more proprietary doomed product. OpenERP S.A. is already taken by the growth influenza: they would pay A LOT to hire some mediocre professional consultants! They don't have as much money as say SAP or Oracle, they won't hire any similar consultant. At the same time, they would need to make money at some point to fund those new hires. They would sufocate either their SMB's customers using OpenERP is marginally beneficial (but is) considering the mentioned issues or either their professional partners (us) that would need to sufocate their SMB's customers themselves... This policy leads to the best contributing and skilled community members to fly away with such explanations: http://sharoonthomas.blogspot.com/2010/04/official-partner-policy-of-open-erp-i.html (we already had some "model" customers not renewing their OpenERP S.A. maintenance contract because of unsatisfaction - while still working with us - and OpenERP S.A. would like we sale 20 000 euros or 40 000 euros of such maintenance contract a year ??!??? Where does it lead??? What is the big vision here??) On the contrary, within the expert community (introduction here http://www.akretion.com/en/blog/2009/12/28/scaling-openerps-community-to-the-world/ ), you would find the best ERP consultants around the world, those are contributing everyday for free for OpenERP S.A. because they have the same interest. So, IMHO, the only "whole picture" successful path for OpenERP is to be more organized with its community (communicate, long term schedule, not just next version, respect community efforts, don't try to just own all the copyrights etc...), at least that expert part at first (hoping that it will catalysis to the more amateurish part in a scaling manner). Anything different will not necessarily fail totally but will certainly be below Tryton within a short time period (one year to one year and a half I would say). My 0.02R$ because we are not just naysayers making "big words" but active contributors (see report_opensoffice from @sraps too), I sent yet another sanity merge proposal for v6: https://code.launchpad.net/~akretion-team/openobject-addons/project-management6/+merge/30897 Hope to see some feedback... ------------------------ Raphaël Valyi CEO and OpenERP consultant at http://www.akretion.com -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=59381#59381 -------------------- m2f --------------------
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