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Re: Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools

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Post by xtracto »

KronisLV wrote: post #50

Some additional ideas: - Kanban - Kanboard ( https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard ) - Analytics - Matomo ( https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo ) - Content Management System - Grav ( https://github.com/getgrav/grav ) - Knowledge Base - BookStack ( https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack ) - Browser - Firefox ( https://github.com/mozilla ) - Image Manipulation ( https://github.com/GNOME/gimp ) - Observability Platfo…

Even though it is not as general as some of those, I think https://fineract.apache.org/ should be in the list: An Open Source Loan Servicing System.

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

xtracto wrote: post #100
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #82

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Any luck holding Microsoft, Google or Apple accountable for issues in their operating systems?

I am sure large companies have that lever: I know of a large multinational company (around 150,000 employees along all contintents) that moved from SuccessFactors to Workday. Those are huge contracts.

Reasons for switching contracts can be numerous, and, from my experience, the level of support and quality of the actual application is rarely one of such reasons.

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Post by federation »

dotCOMmie wrote: post #98
KronisLV wrote: post #50

Some additional ideas: - Kanban - Kanboard ( https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard ) - Analytics - Matomo ( https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo ) - Content Management System - Grav ( https://github.com/getgrav/grav ) - Knowledge Base - BookStack ( https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack ) - Browser - Firefox ( https://github.com/mozilla ) - Image Manipulation ( https://github.com/GNOME/gimp ) - Observability Platfo…

Looker / Tableau alternative - Redash ( https://redash.io/ )

Set to be end of life in November after Databricks Acquired it. Try Superset / Preset https://preset.io/

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Post by agentdrtran »

typhonius wrote: post #78
pembrook wrote: post #55

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I think a good way to get an understanding of this is to start a company yourself. You’ll quickly learn why businesses make the decision to pay for software instead of cobbling together open source. Let’s say you’re a small, but growing company doing $2M ARR. You absolutely could run your email marketing using an open source tool hooked up to Amazon SES and save a thousand bucks a month over something like Mailchimp.…

This is where the maxim of open source being 'free as in puppies not free as in beer/lunch' comes from. I started my career in open source and still strongly believe in FOSS tenets, but enterprises are looking more to de-risk their projects and platforms. Risk is reduced when you have a vendor you can hold accountable for issues in the product, hence making proprietary solutions (and sometimes open source but wrapped…

“free as in puppies” is an excellent phrase

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Post by curtis3389 »

skyfaller wrote: post #90

Some of these "open source" options are not really open source. - Outline uses the Business Source License 1.1, which eventually becomes open source (Apache 2) four years after each release. https://github.com/outline/outline/blob/main/LICENSE - Invoice Ninja uses Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2), which allows you to host it for yourself, but not for other people. https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja/blob/master/LI…

I'm actually not sure if the 2 cases you cited actually violate the OSI's Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/docs/osd

Anyone care to clarify? I know that open source != free software, and you can read about that on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#Open_source_as_a_t...

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Post by gmueckl »

xvilka wrote: post #64
jasode wrote: post #40

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>Is this still the case of idiot-managers doing decisions like "nobody was fired for buying IBM" (and now SAP, salesforce, Enterprise software like SAP and Salesforce are gigantic comprehensive business process management tools for Fortune 1000 companies that can't be replicated by stitching together open source projects. Even tech companies with expert domain knowledge of software programming like Microsoft, Amazon,…

Gigantic part of products like SAP etc (maybe the main part) is their integration with local standards and legislation in every jurisdiction the company operates. Yes, writing code that can substitute their products is probably easy. Knowing what exactly to write is hard, especially for multinationals.

Another big part is the under the hood flexibility, at least in SAP. What you usually see as a user is a specific configuration of the package that has been adapted to your company's workflows. There is a lot of domain knowledge and implementation effort hidden within that configurability.

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Post by KronisLV »

executesorder66 wrote: post #62
KronisLV wrote: post #50

Some additional ideas: - Kanban - Kanboard ( https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard ) - Analytics - Matomo ( https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo ) - Content Management System - Grav ( https://github.com/getgrav/grav ) - Knowledge Base - BookStack ( https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack ) - Browser - Firefox ( https://github.com/mozilla ) - Image Manipulation ( https://github.com/GNOME/gimp ) - Observability Platfo…

N.B. KeePassX hasn't been maintained since 2016! Use https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc instead. (They are compatible)

Fair point! I actually still use KeePass on some machines that are stuck on Windows, as well as run the original KeePass on Linux ones as well thanks to Mono (IIRC).

Re: Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools

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Post by pratio »

fnomnom wrote: post #85
pratio wrote: post #18

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But as you can see here, Cloudinary supports serving ads, So it'll be present in the private lists that are being used by a lot of ad-blockers. https://cloudinary.com/documentation/video_player_ads_moneti...

s3 is also used to deliver ads. so do you block *.amazonaws.com ?

No, like i said, I hadn’t explicitly blocked this one either, it was a part of the adblock list the I’m using. The example i gave also showed that they don’t have a unique subdomain that i can unblock while adcompany.amazonaws.com can be done without blocking all sites
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