Hi Kai,
no, i haven't looked at the software at all, but i looked at the project in SF and its environment. They have been shooting past us - ADempiere - in SF statistics. But if you look a little bit deeper you will see, that it is one of these "commercial-open-source-software-projects" which has recently jumped onto the "open-source-marketing-train". If you look a bit deeper yo will even see, that all of the Forum Posts are done from 1 user. Even all Trackers have been launched by 1 user. Maybe all of the Trackers that were closed in the last few days have even been closed by one user or automatically?
Greetings from Sankt Augustin
Mark
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PostBooks uses Postgre Stored procedures. From technical point of view and from object oriented point of view software written with stored procedures is hard to maintain and extend.
Kind regards,
Trifon
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Yes, you are right. And if you look a little bit deeper you see that the post and trackers are just transfered from their own system to sourceforge. In the messages you have a link to their forum and there you have more users. And because they transfered all the older stuff in the last weeks they went up in the statistics. But it doesn't say anything about their product. And yes you are right that it is 'Proprietary Open Source' (for me Carlos don't need a Phd to create new terms). So we won't switch. :-) But it is always good to know what is going on in this sector. And isn't it funny, that the three most active sourceforge projects are ERP systems? Somehow it seems that the OS ERP time has come.
And thank you Trifon for you hint. For me it seems not so powerful and flexible, too.
-Kai
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Recently i installed postbooks
postbooks at a glance
Good point
- amazing categories in master data setup - accounting and so on
- very user-friendly forms
weak point
- postbooks has not workflow (or i could not find it) i think erp system
without wf is meaningless
- only desktop application
- technical weakness is what trifon mention above
omidp
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it only work with postgresql and was developed with GTK, they have versions to windows, linux and mac , also they have a reporting tools.
What is my impressions,when I saw openmfg in past and I remembered ERP the century past or
80 years with good functionality and old concept of create a window for each
functionality, I remembered when i had that maintenance the business logic the a old ERP this was task complex.
So the great issue of openmfg is his platform technology vs Adempiere that have an Application Dictionary, Workflow Engine, Persistence Engine and tegnology more used in world that is JAVA ;-).
but the more important the Adempiere is the comunnity :-)
kind regards
Victor
www.e-evolution.com
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Yes you are right. The took the closed source application created at crippled version and opened the source for this. Somehow the are doing the same as Compiere the only come from the other direction. I really don't see the point of this concept. As a customer you are loosing all the OS advantages because if you really want to use this software you have to pay and have no OS anymore. The OS version is more the free demo. So what about the name "demo open source"? (Sorry red1, I don't have a Phd but after I finished my diploma I got some offers to make one, does this count, too? :-) )
-Kai
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Hi everyone,
By chance I just noticed this OS-ERP System:
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/postbooks/>
Did someone already go into it? Any impressions?
-Kai
Hi Kai,
no, i haven't looked at the software at all, but i looked at the project in SF and its environment. They have been shooting past us - ADempiere - in SF statistics. But if you look a little bit deeper you will see, that it is one of these "commercial-open-source-software-projects" which has recently jumped onto the "open-source-marketing-train". If you look a bit deeper yo will even see, that all of the Forum Posts are done from 1 user. Even all Trackers have been launched by 1 user. Maybe all of the Trackers that were closed in the last few days have even been closed by one user or automatically?
Greetings from Sankt Augustin
Mark
Hi Kai,
PostBooks uses Postgre Stored procedures. From technical point of view and from object oriented point of view software written with stored procedures is hard to maintain and extend.
Kind regards,
Trifon
Hi Mark,
Yes, you are right. And if you look a little bit deeper you see that the post and trackers are just transfered from their own system to sourceforge. In the messages you have a link to their forum and there you have more users. And because they transfered all the older stuff in the last weeks they went up in the statistics. But it doesn't say anything about their product. And yes you are right that it is 'Proprietary Open Source' (for me Carlos don't need a Phd to create new terms). So we won't switch. :-) But it is always good to know what is going on in this sector. And isn't it funny, that the three most active sourceforge projects are ERP systems? Somehow it seems that the OS ERP time has come.
And thank you Trifon for you hint. For me it seems not so powerful and flexible, too.
-Kai
Recently i installed postbooks
postbooks at a glance
Good point
- amazing categories in master data setup - accounting and so on
- very user-friendly forms
weak point
- postbooks has not workflow (or i could not find it) i think erp system
without wf is meaningless
- only desktop application
- technical weakness is what trifon mention above
omidp
Hi Kai!
PostBook is a cut version of openmfg and other software open source commercial, the complete solution is openmfg and postbooks
http://www.xtuple.com/openmfg
http://www.xtuple.com/postbooks
http://www.xtuple.com/pricing
it only work with postgresql and was developed with GTK, they have versions to windows, linux and mac , also they have a reporting tools.
What is my impressions,when I saw openmfg in past and I remembered ERP the century past or
80 years with good functionality and old concept of create a window for each
functionality, I remembered when i had that maintenance the business logic the a old ERP this was task complex.
So the great issue of openmfg is his platform technology vs Adempiere that have an Application Dictionary, Workflow Engine, Persistence Engine and tegnology more used in world that is JAVA ;-).
but the more important the Adempiere is the comunnity :-)
kind regards
Victor
www.e-evolution.com
Hello Victor,
Yes you are right. The took the closed source application created at crippled version and opened the source for this. Somehow the are doing the same as Compiere the only come from the other direction. I really don't see the point of this concept. As a customer you are loosing all the OS advantages because if you really want to use this software you have to pay and have no OS anymore. The OS version is more the free demo. So what about the name "demo open source"? (Sorry red1, I don't have a Phd but after I finished my diploma I got some offers to make one, does this count, too? :-) )
-Kai