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by sctechie 4933 days ago
Are you serious? Sorry, I work for a company with actual revenue and profit. We make actual products, not 'social engagement'. Yes, if I brought that product demo to my management and shareholders (because they're the ones that okayed our huge investment in ERP) and it crashed 30 seconds into the demo, I would be in the shit. I see no reason why it shouldn't roll down-hill to OpenERP.
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rufugee 4933 days ago
Yes, I'm serious. The product isn't even released yet, and yet you're crapping all over it because you found a bug. I find that an unreasonable attitude.

I am the CIO for a $300M company. We have two ERPs in-house, one of which is a very profitable and widely used off-the-shelf system. Over our three years of use of said system, we have found a number of bugs. We find them, we report them, and they are dealt with (albeit a bit slowly). We'd fix them ourselves, but of course we have no access to the source (which is not the case with OpenERP).

Hurry...please point out an ERP which doesn't have bugs. You can't. It sucks you found one in OpenERP so quickly, but complaining about it without offering recreate instructions is useless to everyone.

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sctechie 4932 days ago
Hey there. I get that you seem to like this product. I'm not even knocking it. I'm just telling HN what I experienced with the demo they posted.

As far as the product not being released... The guy is advertising a huge "SUCK IT SAP" website bragging about the new version of their software being released in 9 days. Not exactly an alpha version here.

I fail to see what the size of 'your' specific company has to do with anything. Anecdotal evidence is just that. 'Your' company might have the technical resources to fix bugs in open-source software, but that can't be a serious suggestion. That's like saying every enterprise out there should keep technical staff on-hand to patch the linux kernel. That's silly.

I posted a screenshot in another reply but in case you care, here's the bug that basic, and I stress that word, testing would have caught.

http://imgur.com/fp8oW

Easily reproducible in two seconds by simply using the interface.

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rufugee 4932 days ago
Great...thanks for doing so. I mentioned the size of my company's revenues in response to your comment Sorry, I work for a company with actual revenue and profit....so do I.

It's not that I necessarily like the product yet, but I'm willing to give it a shot, and willing to accept that there might be bugs.

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