Hello,
We're a F/OSS company looking at what exists in the ERP sector. We have
internal needs and we have business development needs.
We have been using OpenERP for a while but are quite dissatisfied with
several points :
- Its database schemas are just unreadable w/o the app, so we are bound
to using its web services only and cannot migrate data without writing
magic glue code.
- They have a policy of nagging for registration that displeases us a
lot : end users don't need to see a Piracy-warning-like message on F/OSS.
- It's so tightly bound to the database that it's not possible to
migrate it to another way of storing the data.
- It's not "real Open Source" as it is an Affero GPL product. This means
that whatever we do will eventually be owned by the central company.
OFBiz is at the opposite of these points : its DB schemas are based on
standards, it doesn't have a central authority that wants your money,
it's licensed under a permissive license, and it can already manage to
live in lots of database.
But we need to know who uses OFbiz and how? Who can we make new business
with? Who already makes business with it? Is there room for new experts?
The documentation is scarce and except if we buy books online (written
for outdated versions) it will be a guessing game to know what it is.
Where can we get the fresh news and status of the project?
Yours sincerely
--
Chloé Desoutter
C[A-Z]O, Atasta NET
