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[Raphael Valyi <rvalyi@xxxxxxxxx>]

As an afterthought,

I was thinking: in my preceding post I was focusing on explaining what I
think are the counter productive limits of the marketing "gesticulations"
of OpenERP.

But may be, by telling what are the issues it gives an unbalanced vision
that things would be all wrong.

Sorry if it looks that way. May be I should recall here that meanwhile
lot's of things are positive:

   - future v8 is looking fantastic so far (WMS, new API, enhanced web
   capabilities, removal of RML...)
   - so far I cannot think about any functional regression in v8 like we
   had in many past releases.
   - while I think the overall schedule of the new certification system is
   inefficient and put again the burden all on the shoulders of the partners,
   I think that in the long run certification may be a bit part of a solution.
   For that it would also be cool certification would test more ground ERP
   knowledge rather than mostly button functions of version X.
   - CTP training content by OpenERP SA is much better now than say 2 years
   ago which finally makes it reasonable to deliver the official training
   content and leave extra topics such as localization as extra content as it
   should be for a complex generic purpose ERP (whenever this is assumed).

All right. so in any case my goal is to be constructive and emphasis what
the issues are so eventually things improve.

Regards.

-- 
Raphaël Valyi
Founder and consultant
http://twitter.com/rvalyi <http://twitter.com/#!/rvalyi>
+55 21 2516 2954
www.akretion.com



Regards.

Regards.



On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Raphael Valyi <rvalyi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Thorsten Vocks <
> thorsten.vocks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> i am a bit confused that we are discussing OpenERP marketing strategy
>> (indeed important issues for OpenERP SA and their partners) in the
>> "community" maillist.
>>
>> Is it really the right place to discuss ?
>>
>
> Hello Thorsten,
> It's not like it was us launching the thread about OpenERP marketing to
> collect constructive feeddback...
> And yes, marketing is a pretty large topic that is related to many aspects
> of the company, the product and the eco-system.
>
> I would also have been very keen discussing that on the partner list. But
> since a few years it's moderated in a way these debates are not happening
> anymore unfortunately and it turned into just an hygienic market place.
>
> Even if facing the reality can be a little hard sometimes, not facing it
> is much worse I think. Friends tell things that they think are wrong. I
> think I'm also making comments on policies that had the opportunity to be
> tried a few years already. We can now probably take a step back and ask us
> what was right and what is wrong.
>
> Also a few folks are reading the mailing list, you could think "ah that
> will make a bad image, we cannot say this here". I would say folks here are
> the one that have not been frightened by Launchpad look and feel, by the
> tech discussions running here, so in any case they aren't the folks OpenERP
> would pass any image they would like to build. And in any case the audience
> of such kind of list is nowhere close to a website like OpenERP that should
> probably make 10 000 visitors a day (guesstimation) I would say where they
> have the opportunity pass the commercial message they want to the masses
> instead (but it should probably be well grounded enough to produce the
> wanted effects).
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Raphaël Valyi
> Founder and consultant
> http://twitter.com/rvalyi <http://twitter.com/#!/rvalyi>
> +55 21 2516 2954
> www.akretion.com
>
>
>