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I can't imagine wanting to spend my free time contributing to anything that's in the same class of software as Oracle or SAP. That's a hard hill to climb for an
by thrower123 7y ago
I can't imagine wanting to spend my free time contributing to anything that's in the same class of software as Oracle or SAP. That's a hard hill to climb for an open-source project - ERP is just soul-sucking drudgery, at the best of times.
At best I can imagine having to use the thing for work, and at least being able to hack in a fix for a bug. Assuming I can actually get the whole thing to build. And that there's any stomach in the organization for customization that isn't on somebody else's liability.
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- icebraining 7y agoYou can definitively get it to build; Odoo is essentially a Python web framework (ORM, UI framework, etc) that happens to include a bunch of apps for typical business needs. Running it is no harder than running the average Django app, just point it to a Postgres instance. That said, while I enjoyed the six years I worked with it at different companies, I can't say I'd spend my free time on it. But I don't think that's necessary for FOSS to work; Odoo has a pretty good community (OCA), mostly composed of people paid to work with it.
- pinky07 7y agoOdoo is not comparable to SAP or Oracle. We focus mostly on SMEs, with an approach "per app" rather than an ERP. What we do is more comparable to building an open source WIX, Trello, Slack, Pipedrive, ... I would never do something else :)
- grogenaut 7y agoWhy would anyone ever want to compete with Microsoft apple sun or ibm? Yet we have Linux.