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Special issue of Informatie on Open Source

Overheid en bedrijfsleven zijn enthousiast over open-sourcesoftware. Kosten, vrijheid en openheid zijn belangrijke voordelen. Maar vaak weet de linkerhand niet wat de rechter doet, zijn elementaire zaken als licenties en aansprakelijkheid niet geregeld, en wordt geen gedegen afweging gemaakt. De stand van zaken.

http://www.informatie.nl/artikelen/2003/07/

An Open Source ERP System?

When someone says enterprise resource planning (ERP), most IT professionals think of the expensive, complex, and difficult-to-implement commercial products that were the rage a few years ago. Although many large corporations did reap tremendous cost savings from the implementation of such systems, an average implementation cost counted in the millions of dollars; this has prevented ERP systems from spreading to small and medium-sized businesses. After ERP deployment, its "blackbox" nature prevents from understanding and eventually improving the business processes it implements, leaving some important business decisions to the software publisher rather than to the corporate manager.

This situation provides much of the motivation for our architecture, ERP5, which offers several advantages for business. All ERP5 tools are open source, so are free and have openly available source code that a business can change to suit its processes.

http://www.computer.org/itpro/cover_stories/smets.htm