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The open source 



----++ Resources

----+++ 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