The announcement of the acquisition of Compiere by Consona Corporation leaves us with mixed feelings.
First, for us who are deeply committed to Open Source we can only feel sorry that one of the historical pioneers in this area is going to disappear. Reading the press release we understand Consona's interest in the technology but we have a hard time believing their commitment to support the community and indirect model. We know how much dedication it takes to support this business model. Even if Compiere was a competitor, from our perspective it is bad news. We believe that the more successful Open Source vendors the better for our industry as a whole.
Secondly, Compiere's buyout (and in our eyes withdrawal) happens at a very strange time. We have never experienced so much demand than during the past recent months. We see interest from major companies which strongly feel the limitations and the frustrations of dealing with SAP and Oracle, companies we never thought would consider Open Source ERP solutions a few months ago. We also experience increasing global demand: Poland, Mexico, South Africa and Philippines just to mention a few. Our opinion is that Compiere's failure is not resulting from a lack of demand for Open Source solutions, but the consequence of a poor execution and a lack of commitment toward their community.
Finally, Compiere's acquisition reinforces our determination. The Open Source ERP community needs a strong leader and we believe we can play this role. We know that we need to work hand in hand with the community to build not only a good product but the very best.
We are determined to do it by sticking to our vision, to our strategy and with the support of all of you!
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hello Sir,
Would like to say that tiny is one of the best ERP i camed across. We implement OpenERP and i write for openERP. I am waiting for you next new version of the same
Hello Fabien,
I think this is very opportunistic because likelihood of this happening in Open ERP is more according to your interview with Bloomberg which says that you are 'open to a takeover'. Refer http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=a0Wy0DITQBiA
And regarding "Open Source ERP community needs a strong leader" - I disagree, in Open Source we dont need monopolies, we need more alternatives which should thrive. Example the distros of Linux, or GNOME and KDE.
Interesting thought!! You have made a good point on the fact that this acquisition was more of an exit strategy than saturation of the ERP market.There is no means of guessing how this acquisition goes, but the gaining interests as you say only means a holistic development of the Open Source community
Vu la qualité de OpenERP et le nombre croissant de ses clients et de ses utilisateurs à travers le monde, dans peu de temps, vous allez aussi être racheté et vous ne serez plus Open...c'est ça la vie et c'est plus que normal...
I think the opinion of Sharoon is so important, the leadership shouldn't be only one, but in the ERP World we need to build an strong option, and I think OpenERP, SA can play the role to rules this project, they are making better every day, the documentation is become better, more explicit, clear rules, relation with community, no filters.... etc......
Im a little worry about _cost_ only, but, is a minor problem if you compare with big and expensive solutions like SAP and Oracle, but IMHO I think This is because the environment were this idea was born, and we need to trust that If the OpenERP grows, the community also will do it.
We think from Venezuela that Compiere was a "Chronicle of an Announced Dead." Because they look more like an Privative tools with access to the source code, than a really Free (of freedom) option.
We have totally trust on Fabien and OpenERP SA, and we want to add value to OpenERP but Fabien we need to work very hard in return this value day by day added by partners and community to themselves, This is the only way that this process will be maintainable.....
Hi Fabien:
I want to show yourself on the one hand our concern over the decline of the OS by the direction taken first with Openbravo and Compiere now. At the same time I express our solidarity and the Mexican community that believes in Open Source.
"We see interest from major companies which strongly feel the limitations and the frustrations of dealing with SAP and Oracle"
please could some one give us a good " Open Erp vs SAP and Oracle"
i don't talk about price 'cause every body knows that the biggest companies don't have problem for paying a huge price.
thank u and sorry for my bad english
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well said Fabien. Keep up the good work, keep the vision.
Would like to say that tiny is one of the best ERP i camed across. We implement OpenERP and i golf equipment write for openERP. I am waiting for you next new version of the same
I just would like to thank you for your best ERP s/w Tiny.
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Compiere open source ERP software provides a modern, highly adaptable, low-cost ERP business solution.
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