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I'm not an expert in ERP and CRM, but I believe I recently saw a press release from the Dutch ERP vendor BaaN that they are going to support their 'iBaaN' platform on Linux. Maybe worth a look?

Yes, companies really do this, and it gains the big ones that implement intelligently millions of dollars per year.

How about a few analogies to explain the "supposed" benefits:

It's like using a network file server instead of using floppies to move files between computers.

It's like using NIS to sync all your users instead of adding every user manually.

There are many benefits to using an ERP system, with most people finding the most benefits in a manufaturing company. It would be swell if there were only two fields to fill in to run ERP software (employees and sodas), but there are usually hundreds.

I used to implement ERP software(SYMIX,Glovia (CHESS),Baan), and then programmed for Baan...The software is big and does so many things. "Enterprise Resource Planning" _is_ descriptive. For your entire enterprise(business) - whether one site or a hundred sites of hundreds of employees, machines, departments - you can manage/decide/plan how each of those resources (including money) should be allocated and assigned to achieve your business objectives.

Go here and read: What is ERP

updated link, thanks to the wonderful technology of ~~frames~~. Yugh.

UK's Invensys offered 2.85 EUR per share, and BAAN management agreed with it. You can take a look at Invensys' press release, it's in PDF. BAAN has a shareholder meeting tomorrow (the 29'th), to discuss Insensys' offer.

UK's Invensys offered 2.85 EUR per share, and BAAN management agreed with it. You can take a look at Invensys' press release, it's in PDF. BAAN has a shareholder meeting tomorrow (the 29'th), to discuss Insensys' offer.

They are currently being bought by Invensys, a british firm. They own a shitload of compagnies, quite diverse in nature. Imagine Baan under the same umbrella as, say, Westinghouse Train Brakes :-)

More details on this baan webpage

greetings,

Reinout

According to this press release, BAAN may be bought by Invensys (a company from the UK)

The company I work for (BaaN) suffered from the trojan as well. The email network is down (Exchange) as I type. The problem here: everybody uses one shared addressbook with over 4000 (!!) mail adresses. You can image what happens if the trojan gets hold of this ...

Most of the correspondence goes through email around here (because we have departments all over the world) so you can image the damage.

And people ask me why I always ssh to my server to start pine .... *grin*

Some links to ERP vendors and what they have to say about Linux support:

• SAP has announced Linux support and has been shipping since August 25. Their Linux page is here.
  (Check out the cool penguin :-))
• Baan does not seem to have any public plans for Linux support. (Their web site does not have a search facility so it's hard to be sure, but they seem to be a Microsoft shop.) Does anybody know differently?
• J. D. Edwards has a very frustrating site which will lead you to a search page which promises that "to find what J.D.Edwards position is on the Linux operating system, type Linux in the field below and click Search". When I did this I got "no matching documents", so I assume they don't have a position.
• PeopleSoft does not mention Linux on their site, so it is probably safe to assume that they do not support it.

So, answering my previous question, it seems like Kenwood is limited to choose between SAP and SAP.

Baan is a company that makes/sells an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) package named BaanERP, which is like SAP R/3. Go to their site for more information.