[GTALUG] Question

[Digiital aka David]

Oh I clearly knew that but the older people in the company were always
pushing back. "Why do we need something new, we have this and it works"
clearly it didn't work. it was amazing how it actually did work, the
'access db' didn't use keys. The guy that dev'ed it linked tables with text
and not a unique key.... example "Part123" and "part123" were the same part
, but showed up as two different parts in the system. :) and depending who
used the application, they would update the inventory one which ever part
came up ... "part123 = 10 parts" and "Part123 = 14" over all 24 parts, but
funny when "part123 = 0" was down to 0 they would order more but actually
had 14 still in stock....

It's a looong story... the owner was set in his ways.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Marc Lijour <marc at lijour.net> wrote:

> Odoo can be tailored, but at a cost (oftentimes underestimated by the
> customer). However, it's the best solution for those who need a custom-fit
> system -short of building one from scratch of course :-)
>
> On 2017-01-12 09:29 AM, Digiital aka David wrote:
>
> Could have used that meetup a few yrs ago. I was working with a
> manufacture in Mississauga that wanted to replace the homebrew ERP
> system(access?? Blaaaa) and I was in the stages of rebuilding it using
> OpenERP(Odoo) but they didn't like the flow because they had been doing the
> biz the same way for over 30 yrs and just not possible in Odoo so they
> scrapped the project/and me :)
>
> Now they realize that they have to make some change and decided to go with
> http://openpro.com/ which isn't open at all.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Marc Lijour via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> wrote:
>
>> For business uses, we use Odoo. It's open source and simple enough to get
>> started with a couple business functions like accounting. We actually
>> launched the Odoo Toronto meetup group with another Odoo service provider
>> (OERP). See https://www.meetup.com/Odoo-Toronto/ (slow right now)
>>
>> For personal use, I found that Gnucash does the job.
>>
>> On 2017-01-12 08:16 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Am trying to find (for need in the not to distant future) some of what
>> is normally called 'accounting' software (its really record keeping
>> software but that's a different argument!).
>>
>> What are you using that is, or could be, multi-user and has room for
>> some complexity?
>> (I am presently using 10 digit account numbers to get the granularity I want.)
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Dee
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