Hi, We are in the process of selecting the right ERP for our company. We initially started evaluating OpenERP, but as I was getting to know the project a little bit better, more and more problems came to my attention, which I tried to summarize in an email: https://lists.launchpad.net/openerp-community/msg02588.html
A nice member of the Tryton community (I don't know if he wants to remain anonymous) pointed me to your project as an alternative to OpenERP. I of course knew about Tryton as a fork of OpenERP, but for some reason I never thought it was still maintained. I have to say that I was very pleasantly surprised. I am trying to summarize my current understanding of the project and also I would like to ask your opinion about the issues I see: 1. My first impression was when I started to read about Tryton, that as a software project it is executed much more professionally, for example: - clear release schedule - migration support - sound technical decisions (e.g. using decimals instead of floats, or the introduction of PYSON) - database independence (although we do like PostgreSQL and intend to use it) Do you see any specific technical areas where either Tryton or OpenERP is clearly ahead of the other? 2. Unfortunately Tryton has a much smaller community (at least an order of magnitude smaller) than OpenERP. This of course shows in the raw count of implemented modules / features. What are the trends in the community? Do you see an increase in users / service companies? 3. On the other hand our requirements are not handled out of the box by OpenERP either, so we have to develop our own modules anyways (either by ourselves or contracting a partner). I think these modules would be interesting for the other members of the community as well -- either as contributed modules or even as part of the official Tryton modules. First I would like to share the specification / requirements with you. Is this mailing list the right place for that or tryton-contrib / tryton-dev? 4. The lack of a mature web ui is a problem, because a web interface is one of our core requirements. I already tried out the new JQuery based web ui, but it looks like as if the css styling is not yet done. Or I made a mistake during the install, in which case I would like to know what I missed. I know that the development of this client received some funding last year. Is it planned to be finished in the next release cycle? Obvoiusly, if we decide to go with Tryton, we plan to contribute to this client ourselves as well. 5. Of course an alternative to using the official web client is Nereid, which is something we still have to evaluate. 6. No Hungarian localization seems to be available. Are there other fellow Hungarian developers in the community, who would be interested in joining forces? 7. I checked the websites of the companies listed on the tryton.org services page, and it looks like most of you still provide services for OpenERP as well. What is the reason for this? Are you only supporting your existing OpenERP clients, or there are specific areas where (even with its issues) OpenERP is still a better choice? Which are these areas? 8. I already checked out openerp2tryton.com, which I found to be a great resource. In your experience: is it possible / practical to develop functionality while targeting both Tryton and OpenERP. In particular it would be great if the Hungarian localization (chart of accounts, translations) could be shared as much as possible -- provided that the contributors agree to dual license their code under GPL3 / AGPL. Or have the 2 systems diverged too much to allow such direct code sharing? 9. If the AGPL license is not a problem for us, is it practical to port features from OpenERP to Tryton? Or again: it is more practical to just use the ideas / design from the existing module (if it makes sense), and develop from scratch? I know that the usual answer to such questions is: "it depends on the module". What I am interested in is some kind of statistics, like: we made X modules for Tryton, and Y of that was based on an OpenERP module (a real port), and Z of that was new implementation with only some ideas taken from the OpenERP counterparts. Thank you for taking the time to read my long list of questions, and I am looking forward to your opinions. Best Regards, Gergely -- Kis Gergely ügyvezető / CEO MattaKis Consulting Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.mattakis.com Phone: +36 70 408 1723 Fax: +36 27 998 622
