ERP, the Open Way
There was a time when installing an ERP application, even for evaluation only, meant having an army of consultants, a lot of money, and a lot of time. So when I heard that Openbravo ERP is now available on Solaris (Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris), I had to try it out.
Openbravo ERP is a Java-based open source product. It's among the most active projects on sourceforge, and has received accolades from the likes of Infoworld and LinuxWorld.
I deployed this on OpenSolaris, following Jignesh's instructions. The process was pretty simple, as all the dependencies (Java, Tomcat, PostgreSQL) are in the software repository and can be installed with pkg. I had this up and running in less than an hour:
The total software acquisition cost, including OS, database, middleware and application? Zero. Of course, support contracts would be needed to run this in production, but zero is a pretty low barrier for people willing to evaluate ERP the open way.
Posted at 05:46PM Oct 28, 2008 by hugo in Sun |
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