“There still seems to be a lot of resistance to Compiere
in the corporate world. Why?“Jorg Janke: People need to be conservative
about choosing ERP software. If you implement ERP and it doesn’t
work, you have severe business trouble. That is why people are
fairly resistant. Remember that Linux started with unimportant
things like Web serving, which were not crucial at that time. Now,
for sure, Web serving and Web services are more crucial, and now
people are confident that Linux and open source Web services are
OK. Basically, the same thing will happen with open source
ERP…”
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