The Linux operating system is growing in popularity by the day. This is because the system is very stable and very well suited for enterprise level tasks. A number of products are now being ported to the Linux platform. You can easily find ERP products for the Linux operating system as a number of popular products of this variety are now available. Moreover most of these solutions are free software and you can modify them to suite your requirements.
Most of the ERP products that have been designed for the Linux operating system are based on the same free and open source software philosophy on which the system is itself based. All of us know that the requirements of every company are not same and that with the change of time, the requirements of every company also tend to change. As you have access to the source code of the products for Linux, you can easily tweak it to act in the way you want.
The most common of all the ERP products available for the Linux platform is ERP5. This is also one of the most comprehensive solutions that is available in the market at this point of time. Informatique Professional magazine has awarded the award for best ERP solution to ERP5. It is powered by another very popular open source product called My SQL. The solution is available for download in the binary and source code forms. You also get the option to go for paid software as a service subscription.
Another very popular name in the list of ERP software solutions that are available in the market at this point of time is Compiere. The solution is available under the terms of GNU General Public License. The solution takes pride in being one of the most secure Linux based ERP products. The solution draws its security from the fact that it is based on the Active Data Directory concept. On the flip side, Compiere is based on Oracle Database for which you have to shell out money.
A number community members are making attempts to make Compiere run with a free database system . The target is to make the solution compatible with different database solutions so that it becomes a choice for the consumer to run it on any database system he wants. Beta testing of this interoperability is currently in progress.
Another name in the list of Linux ERP products is Adempiere. This solution is a fork of the Compiere ERP products for Linux operating system. The solution is powered by JBoss and its based on the almost ubiquitous Java 2 Enterprise Edition. You can use Oracle or Postgre SQL as the back end of this solution.
Apart from this a number of ERP products for the Linux operating system are still in the Pre Alpha, Alpha and the Beta test phases.
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