I forgot to mention

Two great sites that inspired me on this work:

http://www.opensourcecms.com/

and

http://distrowatch.com/

The finalists

Theoserp is proud to announce the finalists for its research work on Open Source ERP Systems.

As of today, the most relevant OS ERP systems are:

Adempiere
Apache OFBiz
Compiere
JFire
Openbravo
opentaps

This are the three that give me a bit of curiosity, and would consider, having the time or arguments for it.

ERP5 (I am growing fond of Zope)
FacturaLUX (It's in Spanish!)
Neogia (It seems to be an active project, but the website certainly could use some care!)

The search for the finalists

After my initial research and comparison, I have selected six "finalists". This are the systems I will setup to conduct a more thorough analysis. I also selected another three that I could review, in the rare case I have time for it. I would also welcome comments on my decision, and any challenge to take any other system into account.

The criteria used for the selection was based heavily on my perceptions. Many things give me a first impression that is hard to overpass: a bad Web Page (design or setup), news on the site that are over a year old, and those kind of things that give the feel of an old project being abandoned. I also ponder heavily the developers count; I usually do not trust big projects that are a "one man show". The sense of popularity is another relevant factor. Finally, a demo and screen shots usually give a good impression (unless the demo is badly setup, of course).

The big list

Ok, here is a list of all the Open Source ERP that seemed relevant to analyse.

I have made a simple matrix that I will post as soon as I have my site (www.theoserp.com) set up, comparing: developers #, supported OS's, supported DB's, Latest Release Date, and language.

In the mean time, I will just post the list of the systems I put in the matrix:

Adempiere
Apache OFBiz
CK-ERP
Compiere
ERP5
FacturaLUX
GNU Enterprise
JFire
MaxDev
Neogia
Openbravo
OpenMFG
opentaps
SQL Ledger
Tiny ERP
TUTOS
webERP

I am back!

Right after starting the blog, I took a two weeks vacations. Man, did I have a great time!

To anyone thinking of coming to South America (specifically: La Aguada - Uruguay, and Praia do Rosa - Brasil), I recommend both places I stayed at:

http://www.bungalowsdelpiemonte.com/

and

http://www.studiosdobarao.com.br/

More resources

Now, googlin' for "Open Source ERP" I found...

Other systems ranking high
Tiny ERP
http://tinyerp.com/
which has a nice website

opentaps
http://www.opentaps.org/
Which seems to be a layer over OfBiz

JFire
https://www.jfire.org/
Looks pretty nice

OpenMFG
http://www.openmfg.com/
Looks ok

And other cool links
I actually saw this link in the wikipedia ERP page:
http://www.cio.com/research/erp/edit/erpbasics.html
I'll check it out when I get the time. It looks interesting

Too bad I didn't get any results from google sets (I had higher hopes for this google project):
http://labs.google.com/sets

This is a pretty good article (although it seems a little like pro-'CK-ERP'):
http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20060111OpenSourceERPforSMEs.html
Where 'Fisterra' and 'CK-ERP' are mentioned (and subsequently added to my research list)

A list of (presumably java) open source ERP projects:
http://www.java-source.net/open-source/erp-crm

Starting my research

Starting my research; one of the first, nowadays obvious, better stop would be Wikipedia.

Then, I found this link searching for 'ERP':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_resource_planning

And from there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ERP_vendors

So, my first list to get started would be:

• Adempiere
• Apache OFBiz
• Compiere
• ERP5
• GNU Enterprise
• SQL Ledger

The Open Source ERP

This site is intended as a resource for people searching for Open Source ERP systems information.