Well, there is Odoo. Which is pretty much exactly what OpenKoda is (FOSS ERP).
Odoo is doing quite well. It made Fabien Panckaers the youngest billionaire in Belgium.
Odoo is doing quite well. It made Fabien Panckaers the youngest billionaire in Belgium.
Here in Australia, Odoo is finally starting to hit some strides. We’re seeing more jobs in the market requesting Odoo experience, at our work we’re onboarding more customers than we have before. All said, I’m definitely going to fire up OpenKoda and brush up on my Java :)
Is there something in particular that's flawed with Odoo's business?
Sad to hear about Odoo's disjointed approach to enterprise monetization.
Hopefully OpenKoda takes note.
It's kind of a tragedy of the commons.
In other words, community edition should work transparently to enterprise edition, so migration is simpler.
Though I haven't done a formal review of which features are open and closed, and the xompany doesn't appear to document it anywhere, so I may be wrong. It seems like when I have looked into it in the past mostly it is a core framework with a few open source apps and whole bucnh of closed ones and the marketing doesn't clearly state what is open and closed.
OpenKoda and Odoo actually have sparked interesting questions for me about what an Open source ERP market would look like.
One conclusion I came to is as opposed to vendor lock-in as most ERP/CRM products try to enforce, it would actually be better to go the opposite direction (high compatibility with existing alternatives).
That said, have you guys considered allowing imports from Odoo into OpenKoda or other deep integrations?
In theory, I feel like you can run Odoo apps in OpenKoda, or even vice versa. The experience would be suboptimal but being split between two ERP systems is too.
It's not even about the cost, but about the limitations and poor development velocity.
These companies strive to build something innovative, they just find these closed platforms really cumbersome and slow to deliver.
When you start investing millions of dollars into a bespoke solution you really want to truly own it at some point. And this is impossible with closed and proprietary application platforms.