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Re: Odoo: The new OpenERP

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Post by conception »

CraigJPerry wrote: post #8
ritonlajoie wrote: post #6

What are the alternatives to OpenERP today ? (I mean, free and open sources ones, with acceptable UI)

Even the paid ones have horrible UIs. In fact i've never been lucky enough to see an MRP / MRP2 / ERP system with a usable UI :-( Pointers to nice ones greatly appreciated since it's useful knowledge...

The phrase I've never heard once in my IT career is "I love my ERP."

Re: Odoo: The new OpenERP

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Post by akx »

ddorian43 wrote: post #7
icebraining wrote: post #3

By the way, the core and base modules (and in theory, all community modules, since they're derived works) of Odoo are Free Software (APGL) and available on Github: https://github.com/odoo/odoo Disclaimer: I work for a company that implements solutions based on Odoo for small and large companies. So yeah, it's possible to make a living working on FOSS, if anyone still doubted it :)

they still use their custom-own-built orm ?

Looks like it: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/blob/master/openerp/osv/orm.py

Re: Odoo: The new OpenERP

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Post by icebraining »

ddorian43 wrote: post #7
icebraining wrote: post #3

By the way, the core and base modules (and in theory, all community modules, since they're derived works) of Odoo are Free Software (APGL) and available on Github: https://github.com/odoo/odoo Disclaimer: I work for a company that implements solutions based on Odoo for small and large companies. So yeah, it's possible to make a living working on FOSS, if anyone still doubted it :)

they still use their custom-own-built orm ?

Yes, throwing it out would be suicide, since it'd break every module out there. They're revamping it while keeping backward compatibility, though, and the new API is definitively nicer.

http://www.slideshare.net/openobject/presentation-of-the-new...

Re: Odoo: The new OpenERP

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Post by ritonlajoie »

naringas wrote: post #12
ritonlajoie wrote: post #6

What are the alternatives to OpenERP today ? (I mean, free and open sources ones, with acceptable UI)

There is http://tryton.org/ however I don't know what you mean by "acceptable" UI

For me, an acceptable UI in an ERP means this ERP can be used to do basic tasks by someone not having any PhD ni ERP Usage :)

Re: Odoo: The new OpenERP

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Post by tixocloud »

conception wrote: post #11
CraigJPerry wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even the paid ones have horrible UIs. In fact i've never been lucky enough to see an MRP / MRP2 / ERP system with a usable UI :-( Pointers to nice ones greatly appreciated since it's useful knowledge...

The phrase I've never heard once in my IT career is "I love my ERP."

Why do you think that is?

Re: Odoo: The new OpenERP

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Post by tixocloud »

naringas wrote: post #12
ritonlajoie wrote: post #6

What are the alternatives to OpenERP today ? (I mean, free and open sources ones, with acceptable UI)

There is http://tryton.org/ however I don't know what you mean by "acceptable" UI

The homepage doesn't do a good job of convincing any business why they should adopt it. At the moment, it's too technical for businesses to care.
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