Getting error while installing openbravoerp
sudo apt-get install openbravo-erp
Coulnt find the package

Please help me in solving this issue

Getting error while installing openbravoerp
sudo apt-get install openbravo
Coulnt find the package

Please help me in solving this issue

Congratulations for great idea. We in Africa want to see your initiative bear fruit. We believe the bundle will be a great deal of a product for Africa market. Please squeeze it into both Ubuntu server and desktop as quickly so that we can testdrive it. We are a community promoting open source solutions in Nairobi, East Africa.

We appreciate the feedback on our product and company. Let me clarify some of your comments that are misleading:

1) It is not true Openbravo’s PostgresSQL support is “crippled by bugs”. In Openbravo R2.3x we introduced DBSourceManager[1] that enhanced a lot our database support. As June 2008, 81.54%[2] of the people that participated in our community survey answered that they were working with PostgreSQL. Our own on-line demo[3] uses PostgreSQL as database back-end so our virtual machines. Additionally, we have customers in production with PostgreSQL. If there any bug that you are of you can fill up a bug report[4] an we will work on fix it.

2) Our list of authorized partners[5] are real companies. People that is developing a business around Openbravo ERP. If you are familiar with ERP implementations, you know that many customers do not want to be documented as success histories or their names used. We are working with our community and partners[6] to document our success histories.

3) It is not true that “Openbravo will do really bad with your localized accounting rules”. We currently have 23 completed localizations[7], all of them in production in customers, and may other projects on-going[8]. We work regularly with our community to enhance all these, the Openbravo localization features and customisation. There is obviously space for enhancement, but many people is using them successfully.

We are also working hard on the product (see the status for Openbravo R2.40[9] or R2.50[10]) in an open and collaborative manner. Enhancements are done weekly at functional and architectural level.

Elman, when you say things like “vaporware”, “PostgresSQL support is crippled by bugs”, “cheap beginners maintaining the product” or “almost fake companies lead by inexperienced technical guys” you are basically spreading FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) about an open source product, in this case Openbravo ERP, and attacking the work of all the people working and contributing to this project.

Regards,

Jordi Mas
http://planet.openbravo.com

[1] http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/DBSourceManager_Architecture
[2] http://jordimash.blogspot.com/2008/06/openbravo-community-survey-results.html
[3] http://demo.openbravo.com
[4] http://issues.openbravo.com
[5] http://www.openbravo.com/partners/find-partners-support/
[6] http://www.openbravo.com/customers/success-stories/
[7] http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Localization_Downloads
[8] http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Localization_Projects
[9] http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/2.40_Release_Status
[10] http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/2.50_Release_Status

Half day is only how you startup the native Openbravo and not even with the PostgreSQL free option (which is crippled by bugs). But this is very far from what an SME would actually expect for a ‘full featured ERP’. For instance, unlike commercial options, the native Openbravo will do really bad with your localized accounting rules (except may be for Spain, and I even doubt about it).

If Openbravo offered more out of the box I would agree with you. But I think Openbravo is currently hardly competitive against say M$ Navision or Sage X3 who tend to have much less bugs and offer much more features out of the box (like a valid certified accounting out of the box).

So oss ERP’s are only competitive when you need specific features commercial options don’t offer out of the box in the standard affordable products.

But because of the very bad old code Openbravo uses under the Java cover (as soon as you click an button that’s daddy’s PL/SQL running, no more Java, they don’t even use a Java templating system like JSP or JSF but static HTML files instead; you wouldn’t do worse putting Openbravo on PERL), you would spend an incredible amount of money if you want to have extras features like: HR management, Project with task delegation management, reporting, e-business integration, correct MRP configuration… Take a look at the Openbravo sourceforge forums and you’ll see that lots of inexperienced ‘Java developpers’ are being abused by the ‘Java’ marketing hype and then find themselves in deep troubles for the most basic customizations.

The Openbravo company is now officially favoring third party so called ‘partners’ to integrate their ERP. But, hey were are those successful partners? Google for the listed partners there, almost no one is claiming any Openbravo success stories and mentioning their customers! You’ll see lot’s of almost fake companies lead by inexperienced technical guys who bet all their little money on the Openbravo hype. Actually I think lots of them are now finding themselves in deep financial troubles…

Largest partners, on their side, tend no to mention Openbravo anymore on their site and don’t claim success stories either! Isn’t that strange for such an outstanding ‘full featured web based ERP’? And the partner map is a joke! Were is the open source transparency?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not calling Openbravo evil, but the Openbravo hype is totally misleading. BTW, successful oss tends to be lead by the tech guys, this is not true with Openbravo: the guys spending their whole days in building the hype and owing the stuff are not the poor trainees or cheap beginners maintaining the product you can track the commits.

@Gary Nutbeam, I agree: OpenERP is where I would rather put my money: on their forums you’ll rather see people integrating it for real, people doing real complex functional customizations instead of just failing to compile the ERP. You’ll see, with deep functional explanation (at least in a book) and flash advanced demos, real e-business bridges, e-mail integration, great HR management, shared calendar, advanced project management, outstanding CRM… About that last one: Openbravo claims it has CRM but Openbravo doesn’t even have e-mail integration neither even pre-sale or SRM capabilities… I call that dishonest marketing and I think this is quite new to abuse customers and investors on the open source market (while it’s has always be very common in the proprietary market).

@The VAR Guy, yeah, Ubuntu is great and doesn’t need Openbravo for sure (IMHO Openbravo is the only winner of the deal). I don’t have any doubt Ubuntu will get a great server application momentum. I think it’s already largely started. No problem you don’t know Java: most people looking at Openbravo are actually in the same situation. Still I believe the benefit yield by oss products is essentially driven by their technology. And also don’t get me wrong, yes Java can be great too, but it needs to be really Java and should be done right.

P.S. It runs on Windows and a bunch of different linux distros.

Also, having a company backing an open-source project a) gives more security to businesses looking to use it, b) usually presents a different attitude in the way the project is run, and c) helps is thrive and expand faster via the revenues.