1 Reply by ludoja

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thanx for opinion roblaus, I agree the UI is important, another yet not mentioned diffference I noticed, is that weberp stresses minimal use of java-script (which has its impact on UI). 

Our demands are quite specific (many customers, hell of amount of prices - each hotel has diferent rooms, seasonal prices etc.), and I guess quite a bit customisation will be requiered to adapt it to cooperate with our online catalog and callcenter communication SW, so the architecture and code structure will be quite important. But our developers will have to judge that.

Ludo

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2 Reply by ludoja

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Hi Janusz,

thanx a lot.

This is kind of answer I was expecting, and I think it will help other people considering those 2 apps too.

Ludo

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3 Reply by ludoja

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thanx for both answers guys, I see that both projects posess passionate developers, which makes for me even harder to make a decision :-).

Of course I have already devoted few hours of playing with demos of all of the projects, (I subscribed to mailing list of weberp about 2 weeks ago) and follow/search phorums of specific questions (eg API and project history), studied documentation (as I ma not a developer more from a project manager point of view), history and community behind projects, so the situation is not as you may perceive, that I found the names of the projects in a list and want you to educate me about basics. My fault that I did not stressed this in the first post. Mea culpa.

Pls do not take my question as provoking, I thought you observe competition and are willing to share pluses of your project. For me was rather surprising that the developers from communion have not heart about webERP and FA yet and started from scratch something which others already developed.

Tim, I did not mean to set up an artificial competition between projects, but obviously natural competition exists, because in my opinion weberp and FA are only mature accounting OS projects in the world and close surroundings ;-). ... so a logical question for me was, what differentiate you fundamentaly the most (otherwise there would be no reason to develop/market 2 different applications.)

Anybody who undergoes similar research as I did probably comes to this question, so make a clear difference would probably save not only my time.

Anyway, honestly, great respect to your work, as soon as we start to work on the project I will post a message on this board to coordinate our work with commuinity and contribute to the project.

Ludo

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4 Reply by ludoja

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ok, thanx for prompt answers, a good sign of a vivid community for both projects ;-)

there are several points I want to react, so...

Ad Tim:
"it seems to me that you fall into a common misconception regarding open source projects, that in some way the developers should act as salesmen, and should sell the product to you..."

Well, I think that any SW project (not excluding an open source one) should take into account not only developers but also its target audience - with all the regard to developers, I think they are not target group of the majority of OS projects, and feeling so, may often hurt the spread of OS concept.

ad: itronics
"Yes, I think TIm has explained excellent that the question is bad addressed. Having so much spare resources you can use some small part of them for recognizing differences between the three projects yourself. We are developers not software retailers nor consultants."

I supposed, that this is not forum only for developers, but also for users. I DO NOT expect developers to sell project, but I do expect project leaders respect the needs of their potential customers and communicate benefits of their product.

I am not in the quest for finding pleasure in pushing forward a OOS project, but I search a solution for satisfiying my needs and I am prepared to pay my bill in return, in lets say development participation. I think this is a case of 99% of OS users.

My resources are not SPARED, I simply try to allocate them as effectively as possible, thats why a posted this question. You may basically answer it in 5-10 minutes in more details than me/my developer would after 10 hours of research. The saved time might be spend on a feature in your project, which would help community, development and me as well. Thats my point.

If there is also a forum for users/not developers question, could I get a link pls.

And Janusz, thanx for welcome, I hope I do not sound rude, this is just a view from a economic perspective

Ludo

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5 Topic by ludoja

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Hi,

(I was not sure where to post this message as there is no general discussion phorum, so pls admin move it where appriopriate)

we are a company operating and developing a travel ecommerce solution in central Europe.

We search a accounting solution with following atributes:

== Platform
source code we could modify
php platform
serverbased.

== Desired features
Multi currency
Multi lingual
Invoice templates
User interface

FrontAccounting seems to fit our needs.

We are prepared to invest into customisation / participation in development about 500 programming hours in this year and 100-200 hours in next years.

Currently we consider FrontAccounting and following solutions:

www.weberp.org
www.comunionerp.com

What would be your reasoning for us to deploy/participate on development on FrontAccounting instead of those stated above, I am specailly interested in compartison of of features/advantages FrontAccounting in comparison with www.weberp.org/, which also has a long history and vivid community.

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