Open ERP

Sourceforge recently launched the 2009 Community Choice Awards. Nominations opened on May 6th and will end on May 29th. Projects with the highest number of nominations in each category will be selected as the finalists. We hope to get your support to get ComUnion ERP in:

• Best New Project
  
• Best Project for the Enterprise

Read some posts, news items and press releases today about the growing adoption of open source in Southeast Asia:

Happy New Year to everyone! This year promises to be an exciting one as we try to move to Beta and a stable release.

For those reading this blog who are not fans of boxing, Filipino boxer (and what many say is the best pound-for-pound fighter in the ring today) Manny Pacquiao, beat American-Mexican Oscar, the "Golden Boy" dela Hoya last December 6 in Las Vegas Nevada (December 7 in Manila, Philippines).

What was widely considered a mismatch with a fight pitting the taller and naturally heavier American versus the smaller Filipino fighter proved true but not in the way many pundits expected. By the beginning of the ninth round of the fight, a badly beaten and tired dela Hoya surrendered to the smaller, faster and more accurate punching power of Pacquiao--ending what was largely a one-sided fight.

Now this fight has already been widely dissected and analyzed by experts and boxing fans for its place in history. I want to look at it from a different perspective by using what happened as an analogy to describe what I feel is happening in the enterprise software industry today.

The VAR Guy has another interesting post about a vendor in the US specializing in helping Universities implement Open Source ERP Kuali. According to the post, "universities [were growing] frustrated with traditional closed-source systems. In some cases, the universities wanted to make and share software modifications - but their software licensing agreements prevented them to do so. In other cases, colleges grew frustrated with high fees for bug fixes and maintenance releases."

The VAR Guy has posted in his blog a survey of open source companies which are focused on growth via channels such as VARs, solutions providers and managed service providers.

At last our blog is online! Welcome to the ComUnion Open ERP Development Blog. Hope to post more about the project, the community, and more here soon!

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