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by davidbrent 4416 days ago
OpenERP could've really benefited from some usability expertise, and if this site is any indication, Odoo may suffer the same fate. If you're going to put this much time/money into a new brand, how could you miss so badly?

In my experience with OpenERP, the end users always took a back seat to the developers. Granted, ERP software is inherently complicated, but with each new version you could tell they made an attempt at a simplified interface and never hit the mark.
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pessimizer 4416 days ago
>if this site is any indication, Odoo may suffer the same fate.

If it weren't for the "formerly OpenERP" next to the new name, I wouldn't even know what the product was supposed to be. Looks like an app store of some sort for tablets.

Spare a sentence or two of explanation, please? Maybe delete one of those rows of giant icons if space is tight.

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paulyg 4416 days ago
OpenERP is still leagues above the million dollar paid apps of Oracle and SAP. I'm not saying you are wrong. Just how bad this particular segment of software is. It is wripe for disruption.
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UK-AL 4416 days ago
ERP software is huge, simply because there so many different ways businesses works, all the regulations you have to comply with etc etc

It would be very hard for a startup to build it from scratch.

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