I guess we will never know the real reason why they pulled the MySQL version but the disappointing thing is that they actually did appear to be up to - I saw it running with 30+ users entering invoices all at the same time into the same database that already had over one million records in it and the program didn't beak a sweat…
> For the moment in the mid-market space I think we will be left with both for quite a while.
Absolutely - due to lack of scope for customisation and the fact that as far as I can see the customer base is not really screaming out for 100% browser-based, cloud-hosted ERP.
It also would be nice to have an in-depth overview of the possibilities these solutions offer for customisation beyond their core functionality - new modules, forms, fields etc. This ability is vital if they are to compete in this space.
Yep, power cuts, and the accounts software data usually ended up mangled!
There's definitely a perception hurdle to overcome, especially with things like payroll in small enterprises. They would need a lot of convincing that there is no chance that when Madge or Bill come to run the hosted payroll last thing on a Friday to make sure it hits the bank, that they have a way out if the internet goes down.
I don't think hordes of customers are leaving just yet. Also 'the cloud' is an annoyingly fuzzy heading that encompasses more than just browser-based applications - running the normal 'desktop' versions of current products on a server in a bunker somewhere and accessing them over the internet via RDP is 'cloud' too.
I'm sure a day will come where fast broadband is ubiquitous and almost 100% resilient, and cloud platforms are almost 100% resilient (you will remember to renew your Azure certs, won't you Microsoft), and HTML5 or whatever allows the creation of a UI as rich as can be achieved in .NET or Swing or whatever. Until it does we'll be in a halfway world.
Seems to be true enough in most cases at the minute, and might well continue to be the case until HTML5 is widespread. But what about something like OpenERP in this discussion?
My answers
MySQL?
Possibly because of what Oracle are doing to it.
> For the moment in the mid
> For the moment in the mid-market space I think we will be left with both for quite a while.
Absolutely - due to lack of scope for customisation and the fact that as far as I can see the customer base is not really screaming out for 100% browser-based, cloud-hosted ERP.
Customisation.
It also would be nice to have an in-depth overview of the possibilities these solutions offer for customisation beyond their core functionality - new modules, forms, fields etc. This ability is vital if they are to compete in this space.
Are OpenERP and OpenBravo
... not contenders in this space?
And are the bulk of their customer bases crying out for it? I suspect not, at the moment anyway.
Name rings a bell LOL
Name rings a bell LOL
And where would they print 500 dot-matrix payslips to at home? Or would they be printing directly from their hosted payroll application anyway? :)
Yep, power cuts, and the accounts software data usually ended up mangled!
There's definitely a perception hurdle to overcome, especially with things like payroll in small enterprises. They would need a lot of convincing that there is no chance that when Madge or Bill come to run the hosted payroll last thing on a Friday to make sure it hits the bank, that they have a way out if the internet goes down.
I don't think hordes of customers are leaving just yet. Also 'the cloud' is an annoyingly fuzzy heading that encompasses more than just browser-based applications - running the normal 'desktop' versions of current products on a server in a bunker somewhere and accessing them over the internet via RDP is 'cloud' too.
I'm sure a day will come where fast broadband is ubiquitous and almost 100% resilient, and cloud platforms are almost 100% resilient (you will remember to renew your Azure certs, won't you Microsoft), and HTML5 or whatever allows the creation of a UI as rich as can be achieved in .NET or Swing or whatever. Until it does we'll be in a halfway world.
Complexity ceiling.
Seems to be true enough in most cases at the minute, and might well continue to be the case until HTML5 is widespread. But what about something like OpenERP in this discussion?