RE: Open source ERP

[Colin Williams <colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good luck. You'll need it.

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From: L. S. Russell [mailto:leslier@datrek.com]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 1:53 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Open source ERP


First of all let me say that only a consultant could dream up a downside
to this effort. 

Lets think about the downside, freely available viable source code that
has to be a bad thing. What better way to learn a language than to see a
few hundred thousand lines of code? 
But wait with all that free working source out there wont programmers
get better at their jobs, oh you can't have that. Then what would they
need consultants for? 

With a project like this, the immediate benefit to all of us is that our
level of expertise will increase. The long term benefit rest with IBM,
and those very same consultants who would love to put a wedge here. 
As open source becomes more the norm in the midrange arena, then large
companies are forced to compete in one of two ways already documented;
they either release their own product as open source and go full force
into support and r&d or they abandon their own product for a more stable
app.
Before you get all hot, I am not saying that we offer a stable app or
will anytime soon I have not seen the source yet, but what I am saying
is that this is the first log on the fire. 
More projects like this will follow, soon and those who foment division
will be left in the dust by open source. 
Those bandwagon jumpers out there should make this the next bandwagon.
This is the vehicle that will carry the 400 farther into the next
century!

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L. S. Russell Programmer/Analyst
Datrek Professional Bags, Inc.
2413 Industrial Drive
Springfield, TN. 37172
mailto:leslier@datrek.com
http://www.datrek.com
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