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Compiere on Postgres/MySQL

Posted by Hemos on from the the-raising-of-awareness dept.

Tim Griffin writes " Compiere (arguably the most comprehensive open source ERP/CRM solution) has recently taken an interesting approach to harnessing community support for adding database independence to their product (currently it requires Oracle). They are taking pledged donations to help get the ball rolling on the project Certainly there are many feature requests in OSS I'd gladly pledge towards. Is this feature pledging a sustainability model for opensource developers/companies? Other examples, such as Blender3d which raised 100,000 EUR in 7 weeks, point in that direction. Perhaps in the future we may even see these pledge requests linked within the GUI itself? "

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  1. Re:Makes sense by iantri · · Score: 5, Insightful
    How long until advertisements right in the software?

    Voila. Adware.

  2. The claim is QT 4 of 2003 (and other claims) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The claim was made this 'port' would have aviablity in Qt 4 of 2003.

    No sign of that happening.

    Some other data for the slashdot readers.

    Other 'claims' from the http://www.compiere.org/technology/independence.ht ml page:

    "but you can get an invoice"

    and

    "As a proof of concept, ComPiere plans to provide a porting kit for one database to be selected yet."

    Now I "donated" over $100 on this last year for a PostgreSQL port.

    1) I have not gotten a invoice.
    2) Phone calls to Mr. Janke have not been returned to answer the question 'what is the status of the port'
    3) Now what I "donated money" for - a PostgreSQL port - may not be done, and instead a MySQL port may be done instead?

    As you can guess, I'm "Happy" about the progress thus far.

    On the mailing list some people have talked about a PostgreSQL fork of his code and Mr. Janke had made mention of some PostgreSQL work done 2 years ago, but to my knowledge, none of that code is 'out there' for the public to see.

    At present, the development environment is Jbuilder...perhaps a seperate slashdotting can happen and convice them to move to Eclipse?

  3. Re:Makes sense by BabyDave · · Score: 5, Funny
    In software, why not something along the lines of "such and such paid for this feature", an eternal mention of one's contribution to the project.

    Me: File->Save
    Clippy: Interested in savings? [Bank name]'s savings accounts have the highest interest rates around.
    Me: Go away! Tools->Options
    Clippy: For all your tools and hardware needs, why not visit [Hardware store]
    Me: Bugger off! How do I turn this off? Help->Contents
    Clippy: Do you need help using your computer? Have you considered taking a computer training course? Why not try ...
    Me: Aargh! (puts foot through screen)
    Clippy: Do you have comprehensive medical insurance?

  4. Old news by ebuck · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Compiere has been hounded for a postgresql database port for a long time now.

    They have had a committee to oversee it, they have had numerous people (of varying skill) offer to contribute, and they have had a stunning lack of progress.

    Their opinion has not changed much, which is, "If you have the Enterprise needing such software, Oracle is nothing more than a drop in the bucket" Eventually, they complained that it would be a finiancial burden to make the port happen. That's when someone indicated a "donation" web page should be set up (as a compromise).

    I see the donation webpage as nothing more than an attempt to keep the port from never happening, by addressing the one point of money (raised when it became obovious that many wanted the feature, but few would donate time or money)