Hello Eric,
Thanks for your opinions. WebERP (WE) is in many ways an optimal solution.
The first reason to split, at first into OpenAccounting, was to get a better structured codebase. This was good, but the bad thing was that OpenAccounting didn't have any support for reporting. They started with Jasper Report, a java based report-generator, but didn't publish that. And OpenAccounting stopped further development and turned into a Java application, OpenAccountingJ.
This was back in 2005 and we decided to fix the reporting problems by using PDF, like WE. At the same time we decided to fix another missing item, the dimensions. Up to two levels of dimensions are possible on the GL Journal transaction. This way it is possible to keep track of e.g. cost centres, departments, projects in a 2 dimensional way. Many reports can be filtered by dimensions.
It is not our intention to move away more from already proven technology. But we would like to do some recurring things better and so on. And we are not implementing the EDI stuff that is in WE. We are moving towards a more modern electronic invoicing/payments. That is one of our future plans.
How does FA compares to WE:
a - many tables are the same, but the structure might be slightly different.
b - business logic, well quite the same, but more user-friendly approaches.
c - underlying GUI logic enhancement in our opinion.
So I guess you can easily stay in both camps.
Admin