Compiere: on the road to resurgence
That's the name of a recent post by Matt Asay's CNET Blog where he describes an interview with Don Klaiss Compiere's CEO whom I have refered to on a previous post, you can check it out here and...hey please don't think I get paid from Compiere to make good publicity on them, it just happens I am a true believer of this project, and as somebody else said before when considering his preferences for open source apps: "it is not just about religion anymore, rather it´s all about value".
2 comments:
Hi, what is it that you like about compiere that's not there in other traditional and open source players? Infact, if you followed the history of Compiere, they were initially a little open source company with no venture capital to back them up, no unnecessary management and titles (would you trust your VP of engineering to be some guy with an MBA degree?). The moment, you take VC, your freedom is lost. The very freedom of open source is gone. The company's interest going forward will only be bringing in the ROI to the VCs. Sooner or later, they will go public if they are a bit successful and then, they will be no different than Oracle or SAP, they have to start producing balance sheets, income statements etc quarter after quarter. And my friend, in a few years, Java will look like ABAP and the very companies that tout that their software is using latest technology will have to hear about some other companies that use either Ruby or some other newer language taking about them the same way.
Hello Anonymous, thanks for your comments, and to answer your question I am not against community driven open source projects at all, however I think in the case of Enterprise Apps you really need to tweak the model to make it successful in terms of ROI so that making a profit is not a sinful thing as long as you deliver real value to your customers. I think that by taking VC, Compiere puts iteself farther away from becoming a de facto standard in Enterprise Software and maybe that's the worst part of it, however looking on the positive side we might end up with a very good alternative to commercial ERP that can put companies in the road to efficiency for a few tens of thousand dollars a year instead of hundred thousands/millions a year that it currently takes from commercial vendors. I encourage you to read this recent interview to Marc Fleury http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9753687-16.html
there he explains in a most thoughtful way I have just tried to point out here.
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