[ Thanks to Jan
Stafford for this link. ]
“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…”