walterbyrd
March 14th, 2009, 07:18 PM
I have not tried either since around October 2008. Last time I tried, neither seemed adequate. But I would be interested in what others here think.
Last time I tried:
OpenERP:
I found it very difficult to install, and use. The modules were a complete mess - and you can not do much - if anything - without the modules. OpenERP seems to be missing a plethora of critical features. I also found it poorly documented, and the community unhelpful. I get the idea that OpenERP is only meant to be used by European companies that hire the Tiny company, or one of the Tiny Comany's partners. Since last October, OpenERP has put some documentation on line, and has come out with version 5.0 - maybe things are better?
LedgerSMB:
Why did they have to write this in Perl? And, even the core developers admit that the code base is a mess - although they claim to be working hard to fix this. The web site is just awful, click on screenshots to a page with nothing - and it's been like for over a year. I don't see where you can get to the discussions from the web-site. Progress seems to be extremely slow. I think LedgerSMB may be providing some decent documentation now.
I don't think either of these products can import from QuickBooks, or do online banking, or -really- connect to any popular ecommerce packages.
Last time I tried:
OpenERP:
I found it very difficult to install, and use. The modules were a complete mess - and you can not do much - if anything - without the modules. OpenERP seems to be missing a plethora of critical features. I also found it poorly documented, and the community unhelpful. I get the idea that OpenERP is only meant to be used by European companies that hire the Tiny company, or one of the Tiny Comany's partners. Since last October, OpenERP has put some documentation on line, and has come out with version 5.0 - maybe things are better?
LedgerSMB:
Why did they have to write this in Perl? And, even the core developers admit that the code base is a mess - although they claim to be working hard to fix this. The web site is just awful, click on screenshots to a page with nothing - and it's been like for over a year. I don't see where you can get to the discussions from the web-site. Progress seems to be extremely slow. I think LedgerSMB may be providing some decent documentation now.
I don't think either of these products can import from QuickBooks, or do online banking, or -really- connect to any popular ecommerce packages.