[beckman466]

> Also get tired of the aspirational rants of how it is going to fix supply chains and offer banking to the underserved communities. And yes, I understand banking, supply chains, and crypto enough to know that that will never happen.

agreed. have you heard of hREA [1] and http://valueflo.ws, led by Bob and Lynn from http://mikorizal.org, and others? it's sort of an open source SAP alternative designed as local-first networked software. "Radically distributed supply chain systems". it uses the REA accounting method [2] to implement LETS and mutual credit type economic networks for cooperatives / small business ecosystems / commons based peer production / any transitional/solidarity economies.

Bonfire is also implementing the Valueflows vocabulary on ActivityPub [3].

[1] https://github.com/holo-rea/holo-rea

[2] http://www.jeffsutherland.org/oopsla97/haugen.html

[3] https://bonfirenetworks.org/

[Guest42]

I appreciate the response and will have to investigate these. My more recent jobs have taken me away from these areas but they are very interesting topics.

I think that there are many valid ways to improve business systems software, but that the current leaders are entrenched to a level that they won’t be replaced, similar to libre office not taking off regardless of its rich set of features. I am glad that open source databases have done well though.

I recall working at a large manufacturing warehouse that switched systems, 2 years into the schedule they had to continue to push out the changeover for a variety of issues.