In recent years, rapid development of open source software, has been recognized and loved people. However, recently there are rumors that China's ERP giant has finally unable to bear to open up. But they really do open source, they can open the way feasible?
Compiere is the world's first open source ERP business advocacy, over the years for many companies provide open source solutions, has become a good open-source ERP vendors. It uses J2EE framework, because the system function is incomplete, and software architecture complexity, and therefore slow, not universal. As the LAMP (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP) open source framework for the rise of real open source ERP began a meteoric rise, to OpenPro Open Source ERP vendors, led the company to break the large ERP software, the model must be used J2EE architecture, but also completely pierce the mystery complex and expensive ERP layer window that paper.
A general review of the domestic ERP vendors, mostly for medium-sized enterprises, offer the hundreds of millions or even tens of millions, simply prohibitive for SMEs in general. In software architecture, basic still stuck in the C / S architecture, the operation mode of the open source not really find a way out. However, they call the "open source" basically copy other software code that is to profit from the company or agent to the deployment of the implementation, this may be the face of fierce market competition, they take the low-cost strategy, but holding "open source" banner, and really go is "non-open source" way.
In China, the surface of prosperity and enterprise ERP market, but the actual effect is not very good. Enterprise information technology information technology still faces many problems, to the ERP, a lot of money to spend tens of millions, which is equal to the fate of their business to these ERP software vendor. In addition, the implementation of the ERP, the enterprise should pay the cost of endless maintenance and modification. Domestic enterprises need low cost, the deployment of ERP software implementation easier.
In recent years, China's figure appeared in the open source ERP, which brings to the enterprise information construction of the new philosophy of development, and welcomed by many companies, which have begun to break completely open source ERP cheap goods not good idea . For enterprises, the open-source ERP software, if no special customization, or even free, but deploy the implementation is very simple, very easy to maintain them, more importantly, the cost of implementation is very low. En letter open source ERP technology is one of the "dark horse." It is the first open source ERP business model of the founder, is also China's first based on J2EE B / S structure of the open source ERP software, and pioneered the adoption of the UTF8 international standards, can support multiple languages, or even the only one to support Linux open-source operating system ERP software.
En-letter technology open source ERP, Web-based application that completely open source ERP solution to enable enterprises to dramatically reduce the cost of information technology, system deployment simple, functional reduction of flexible enterprise use of real zero threshold. In addition, this technology En letter "Service + Join + security" business models are also a number of partners to provide a fast, economical, simple platform, they can according to customer demand and the actual situation on the software, the second development Just a small change can easily achieve client software customization for corporate customers at low cost and high quality service to enjoy the sweet fruit brought by information technology.
ERP ERP giant, and most domestic enterprises have not a real open source, open source ERP and grace both the letter and Technology Architecture, or open source software business models are at the forefront. Although the letter En technology when introduced, this model met the queries, the success of this model? Can withstand the test of practice? Still others say that this is speculation. But the practice is the best test results. Currently, open source ERP product En letter has exceeded 720,000 downloads visits (official site, 520000, co-site 200 000), has successfully recruited more than 10 cooperative partners, the successful implementation of customers in more than 100 cases, 12 million customers are using open source technology products grace the letter, these data undoubtedly the development of open source ERP business model and laid a solid foundation.
IDC survey, estimated that by 2008, non-proprietary ERP applications market, total sales will reach 36 billion U.S. dollars. Letter to ex-led open source ERP is constantly eroding the market share of private ERP vendors, open source ERP En letter Technology business model also represents China and the world development trend of open source ERP, This is the real way open-source ERP . Although the open-source ERP long way to go, but the front light of dawn! We also hope that China would appear more and more like Don believe that open source ERP software technology for enterprise information technology with power take off!