Steve Wood's journey and take on ERPNext
summary
A career-long path from Unix debates in 1984–1988 through early Oracle work leads to concrete claims: migrations that made MySQL/MariaDB and Postgres dominant, experience with Ingress evolving into PostgreSQL, and hands-on ERP implementations in the private sector. ERPNext discovered in 2016 shows the same organic growth path once seen in JD Edwards, strong community and Gartner attention, but gaps remain in professional training and services even as the product gains market leadership.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 0:10How did you come across open source?
- 2:29Are proprietary software better than open source for businesses?
- 2:55What are your thoughts on the future of ERPNext?
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