:SearchEnterpriseLinux: LinuxWorld Preview: What's Up with Linux and ERP?
SearchEnterpriseLinux: LinuxWorld Preview: What's Up with Linux and ERP? Aug 2, 2004, 16 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (8143 reads) (Other stories by Ken Milberg)
"For the past few years, chief information officers (CIOs) and chief technology officers (CTOs) have responded to my Linux evangelism with this question: "If Linux is so great, why aren't there any enterprise resource planning (ERP) apps on it?" Until recently, I only had SAP -- a Linux supporter since 1999. I told CIOs and CTOs that ERP companies are historically very conservative and don't usually port their applications until there's a huge demand.
"This year, that's changed, and I can finally say that Linux is so great that ERP vendors had to have a piece of the action. Even better, there are open source ERP alternatives for midsized enterprises today..."