Open Source Business Systems
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Anyone tried ODOO? I looked at it in the past but the company went a different direction. Is lack of faith in FOSS solutions generally at the SMB level or do you see it in the enterprise as well?
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Below are the Selling and Customer Invoicing sections. I don't know if it accepts payments, but it doesn't appear to be able to produce an invoice.
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Oh wow, check this out: https://erpnext.com/features
Their example in the screenshot is Endicott Shoes!! @andyw and @coliver should get that reference.
It was the old Endicott Shoes factory in Endicott, NY from the 1800s that IBM bought and turned into their first factory. IBM Buildings 2 and 3 are the old Endicott Shows factory buildings (Building 1 is the cafeteria and museum, it was always an office and faces the factories across the street.)
@andyw and I worked in the ES buildings!!
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@coliver said:
Is lack of faith in FOSS solutions generally at the SMB level or do you see it in the enterprise as well?
As a result of a lack of competence, yes. Generally I find that there is IT level FUD (often from wanting to hide a dependence on rote learning of existing tools, fear of change, etc.) that results in underselling ideas to management who then, in turn, poorly understand software value and can be led to make bad decisions easily.
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For Logging, and ELK server should be on this list.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Oh wow, check this out: https://erpnext.com/features
Their example in the screenshot is Endicott Shoes!! @andyw and @coliver should get that reference.
It was the old Endicott Shoes factory in Endicott, NY from the 1800s that IBM bought and turned into their first factory. IBM Buildings 2 and 3 are the old Endicott Shows factory buildings (Building 1 is the cafeteria and museum, it was always an office and faces the factories across the street.)
@andyw and I worked in the ES buildings!!
I was at the old IBM campus this summer. It looks like they've leased or sold a lot of their buildings to the local municipality.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Oh wow, check this out: https://erpnext.com/features
Their example in the screenshot is Endicott Shoes!! @andyw and @coliver should get that reference.
It was the old Endicott Shoes factory in Endicott, NY from the 1800s that IBM bought and turned into their first factory. IBM Buildings 2 and 3 are the old Endicott Shows factory buildings (Building 1 is the cafeteria and museum, it was always an office and faces the factories across the street.)
@andyw and I worked in the ES buildings!!
I was at the old IBM campus this summer. It looks like they've leased or sold a lot of their buildings to the local municipality.
They shut down the facility in 2001 when we were there
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Oh wow, check this out: https://erpnext.com/features
Their example in the screenshot is Endicott Shoes!! @andyw and @coliver should get that reference.
It was the old Endicott Shoes factory in Endicott, NY from the 1800s that IBM bought and turned into their first factory. IBM Buildings 2 and 3 are the old Endicott Shows factory buildings (Building 1 is the cafeteria and museum, it was always an office and faces the factories across the street.)
@andyw and I worked in the ES buildings!!
I was at the old IBM campus this summer. It looks like they've leased or sold a lot of their buildings to the local municipality.
They shut down the facility in 2001 when we were there
Right, the facilities were massive. It was fairly impressive to walk around.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Oh wow, check this out: https://erpnext.com/features
Their example in the screenshot is Endicott Shoes!! @andyw and @coliver should get that reference.
It was the old Endicott Shoes factory in Endicott, NY from the 1800s that IBM bought and turned into their first factory. IBM Buildings 2 and 3 are the old Endicott Shows factory buildings (Building 1 is the cafeteria and museum, it was always an office and faces the factories across the street.)
@andyw and I worked in the ES buildings!!
I was at the old IBM campus this summer. It looks like they've leased or sold a lot of their buildings to the local municipality.
They shut down the facility in 2001 when we were there
Right, the facilities were massive. It was fairly impressive to walk around.
I used to have to go between engineering (farthest western building on campus) and those big manufacturing floors. It was something like 2.5 miles indoors distance!
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Here is ELK for those wondering.
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I've been looking at Observium a bit. Haven't used it yet.
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Here is a sample Sales Order for a $200 computer, there are more fields below the second picture. Custom Details Notes etc.
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Don't forget about LibreOffice.
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@Reid-Cooper Good point.
That is almost a given for an Open Source Desktop environment.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@Reid-Cooper Good point.
That is almost a given for an Open Source Desktop environment.
Almost, but there is a small but very serious competitor too: Calligra Suite
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We almost forgot OpenVPN and ZeroTier.
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Of course there is a huge selection of desktop and laptop Operating systems to choose from. As Scott mentioned there's Linux Mint. There's also the entire Ubuntu Family including Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu and for a very Windows Feeling version ChaletOS among many other Debian/Ubuntu variants.
There's also CentOS, Fedora, Suse and OpenSuse as the other top contenders.
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VirtualBox if you need type 2 virtualization for any reason.
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Sorry everyone, I've had a super busy day or I'd have posted sooner. ERPNext is really cool. I used it for a few years, but I ultimately ended up switching to Wave because of the update schedules. V4 came out last year and I migrated from 3 to 4 (with many problems). I think the beta for v5 came out the end of last year. It migrated to master early this year. In July I tried to upgrade to v5 from v4 and it just exploded. I went to the forums and the reply I got was "You're version is quite old." The date for my update was some time in May, and it was only July. They made some changes to their scripts and pushed them out. I tried again, and it exploded again later on in the migration. I just figured it would be ironed out soon, so I decided to wait a while longer. Then they announced v6 coming out.
It was just too much to keep up with the updates for the system and making sure they didn't break anything (which happened a few times inside of one version). The thing that really turned me off was their install script had missing dependencies. In the middle of the install it did an
npm install <something>but never installed npm with all of the other packages. I was also never able to get the CentOS 7 installer to work. Only got it to work on Ubuntu.
They've come a long way from how it used to be. Version 3 was all done manually and you had to configure superivosrd, gunicorn, nginx, and everything else by yourself. V4 on frappe helped with their install scripts, but you still had to install things like wkhtmltopdf. The new version has real time notifications and changes with node, so it might be worth looking at again. It's just nice to have Wave do all of the maintenance for me.
