Proprietary software running scared
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| In the space of a few hours, I watched us beat out a field of 10+ ECM
| competitors (all the big names) to be selected by a Fortune 500 company as
| the centerpiece for its going-forward ECM strategy.
|
| [...]
|
| Exclusionary licensing forces a vendor to view customers as
| would-be criminals, and certainly not willing participants in a
| buying decision. It puts all the risk on the buyer, rather than
| where it belongs: on the seller (or, at worst, on both in
| equal amounts).
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/03/proprietary_sof.html
This software is now GPL.
Openbravo: open-source ERP software for SMEs
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| Openbravo has just released Version 2.2 of its open-source
| Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. With its solution
| written in Java on the basis of Tomcat the Spanish company is
| targeting small and medium-sized enterprises in particular. On
| the client side the software package can be operated with a
| Web browser.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/86154
Related:
Openbravo's ERP Draws International Cheers
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| With open-source ERP deployments now starting to take more hold,
| Spanish-based Openbravo is quickly gaining international
| penetration, garnering as many as 20,000 downloads a month of
| its Web-based software from all over the world.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6363/1/
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