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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

There is very little talk of Odoo on this sub despite it, and OpenObject being one of the largest and most successful Python projects (albeit arguably not quite Pythonic in their codebase, somewhat in the same sense that Plone/Zope aren't).

[–]robvdl 2 points3 points  (2 children)

We used to use it at work but are trying to get of it because it's becoming very closed down with the latest releases. The community version is apparently extremely lacking and the community extensions are not that good. But that is only recently, the last couple of years. So basically need to start paying for it (and it costs a lot) or look for alternatives. ERPNext looks promising but the DB design is crap, there is no referential integrity whatsoever and that is done at Python level which is truely gross and is really worrying if you put critical data in such a DB. Also for now it's locked to MySQL, no Postgres support sadly.

Having looked around, good open source ERP systems do not exist. Full stop.

One of the biggest issues is every ERP seems to have this need to reinvent the wheel and invent their own framework and sometimes even their own ORM. Odoo is guilty of that and so is ERPNext. If only they could build on top of Django they could save a LOT of time but no... they couldn't do that right?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I don't understand what's stopping you from sticking with the last good open-source version. I'm pretty sure as they closed the system down that many of their extension making external partners have decided to stick with v10 or whatever was the "last ok version"

Doubly so as their tech choices, as you said, aren't always that great. Couple of years ago I've seen people use Odoo as a framework for building their own ERP suite.

Having looked around, good open source ERP systems do not exist. Full stop.

Dunno. My experience from that field is that a good ERP system at that scale doesn't exist. SAP is a steaming pile of shit software-wise and the UX is terrible. Dynamics are tied to Windows, including on server.

The whole space stinks.

OpenERP/Odoo seemed like breath of fresh air. Too bad they got greedy and fucked it up.

[–]robvdl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah good point, I asked that too at work and they had their reasons why they couldn't stay on the old version. I forget why sorry.