Open Source Business Systems
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Is Zimbra worth even looking at any more with options like RackSpace having email for $1/$2 a user?
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@DustinB3403 said:
I'm an idiot.
Of course there's XenServer for open source virtualization. NAUBackup for Full Image backup systems and Xen Patcher for scripted updating of your XenServer Hosts.
And KVM as well, but I generally prefer XenServer still.
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And I'm up and running with Erpnext on XenServer as a VM in under 30 minutes of "work" (actually looking at the screen)
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@Dashrender said:
Is Zimbra worth even looking at any more with options like RackSpace having email for $1/$2 a user?
In those rare cases where on premises email is needed. Which can be political, lack of WAN, etc. But it would be extremely rare. Mostly only cases where email can be acceptably offline lots of the time.
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@DustinB3403 said:
And I'm up and running with Erpnext on XenServer as a VM in under 30 minutes of "work" (actually looking at the screen)
Maybe a full thread on you reviewing that would be good? I've not used it, would love to see a run down on what it can do.
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Linux Mint is an awesome desktop option but far from the only one.
PC-BSD is excellent too.
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Unfortunately I'd really have to dig into the software for ERPNext which, today's a busy day.
But I should be able to provide some decent screenshots of the import parts.
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For firewalls and routing I would normally choose VyOS. Very high performance enterprise router software.
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Ignite Realtime OpenFire for instant messaging.
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It even has a POS module?
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Anyone tried ODOO? I looked at it in the past but the company went a different direction. Is lack of faith in FOSS solutions generally at the SMB level or do you see it in the enterprise as well?
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Below are the Selling and Customer Invoicing sections. I don't know if it accepts payments, but it doesn't appear to be able to produce an invoice.
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Oh wow, check this out: https://erpnext.com/features
Their example in the screenshot is Endicott Shoes!! @andyw and @coliver should get that reference.
It was the old Endicott Shoes factory in Endicott, NY from the 1800s that IBM bought and turned into their first factory. IBM Buildings 2 and 3 are the old Endicott Shows factory buildings (Building 1 is the cafeteria and museum, it was always an office and faces the factories across the street.)
@andyw and I worked in the ES buildings!!
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@coliver said:
Is lack of faith in FOSS solutions generally at the SMB level or do you see it in the enterprise as well?
As a result of a lack of competence, yes. Generally I find that there is IT level FUD (often from wanting to hide a dependence on rote learning of existing tools, fear of change, etc.) that results in underselling ideas to management who then, in turn, poorly understand software value and can be led to make bad decisions easily.
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For Logging, and ELK server should be on this list.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Oh wow, check this out: https://erpnext.com/features
Their example in the screenshot is Endicott Shoes!! @andyw and @coliver should get that reference.
It was the old Endicott Shoes factory in Endicott, NY from the 1800s that IBM bought and turned into their first factory. IBM Buildings 2 and 3 are the old Endicott Shows factory buildings (Building 1 is the cafeteria and museum, it was always an office and faces the factories across the street.)
@andyw and I worked in the ES buildings!!
I was at the old IBM campus this summer. It looks like they've leased or sold a lot of their buildings to the local municipality.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Oh wow, check this out: https://erpnext.com/features
Their example in the screenshot is Endicott Shoes!! @andyw and @coliver should get that reference.
It was the old Endicott Shoes factory in Endicott, NY from the 1800s that IBM bought and turned into their first factory. IBM Buildings 2 and 3 are the old Endicott Shows factory buildings (Building 1 is the cafeteria and museum, it was always an office and faces the factories across the street.)
@andyw and I worked in the ES buildings!!
I was at the old IBM campus this summer. It looks like they've leased or sold a lot of their buildings to the local municipality.
They shut down the facility in 2001 when we were there
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Oh wow, check this out: https://erpnext.com/features
Their example in the screenshot is Endicott Shoes!! @andyw and @coliver should get that reference.
It was the old Endicott Shoes factory in Endicott, NY from the 1800s that IBM bought and turned into their first factory. IBM Buildings 2 and 3 are the old Endicott Shows factory buildings (Building 1 is the cafeteria and museum, it was always an office and faces the factories across the street.)
@andyw and I worked in the ES buildings!!
I was at the old IBM campus this summer. It looks like they've leased or sold a lot of their buildings to the local municipality.
They shut down the facility in 2001 when we were there
Right, the facilities were massive. It was fairly impressive to walk around.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Oh wow, check this out: https://erpnext.com/features
Their example in the screenshot is Endicott Shoes!! @andyw and @coliver should get that reference.
It was the old Endicott Shoes factory in Endicott, NY from the 1800s that IBM bought and turned into their first factory. IBM Buildings 2 and 3 are the old Endicott Shows factory buildings (Building 1 is the cafeteria and museum, it was always an office and faces the factories across the street.)
@andyw and I worked in the ES buildings!!
I was at the old IBM campus this summer. It looks like they've leased or sold a lot of their buildings to the local municipality.
They shut down the facility in 2001 when we were there
Right, the facilities were massive. It was fairly impressive to walk around.
I used to have to go between engineering (farthest western building on campus) and those big manufacturing floors. It was something like 2.5 miles indoors distance!
