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Re: How will price per user really work?

 

Please remove my user from launch pad i don't  want to continue being on this community  


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> On May 20, 2014, at 16:25, "Ian Beardslee" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, May 19, 2014 8:10 pm, Alan Lord wrote:
>> A nice selling point of Open Source systems, that we use sometimes (only
>> with other solutions now), is that *everyone* in a company can use the
>> system without the company having to pay loads of unnecessary license
>> fees:
>> 
>> * Anyone who answers the phone can look up a customer who is calling in,
>> * At peak times of the year you can bring in contract/temporary staff
>> and they can access whatever is appropriate for their job,
> 
> Open Source is not about the licence fees, you go down the proprietary
> path for that.  We want to provide a solution that is free from the
> proprietary fees that limits the number of people or the way that they can
> use the software.
> 
> I can't imagine that we'd be overly keen on going with that new
> partnership/costing model, thankfully as it is open source we can still
> use it for ourselves and clients, make changes and contribute those
> changes back to the community.
> 
>> Frankly, I don't know why OpenERP s.a. don't just close the the source
>> of their product and be done with it. The way it looks to me right now
>> it might as well be and as Fabien said, "Our customers don't choose Odoo
>> beause it's open source."...
> 
> The company I work for certainly wouldn't have looked at it if it wasn't
> Open Source.  As a company that develops and delivers Open Source
> solutions, Open Source is a key part of our business plan.  We don't sell
> or develop proprietary solutions.
> 
>> Oh and Odoo is a pretty stupid name; I still can't say it out loud
>> without laughing ;-)
> 
> Weird name, but there are other weird names out there.  It'll be something
> to get used to.  Renaming the product does make some sense because when
> pushing 'an ERP solution' at someone that just wants a HR solution one
> needs to overcome the whole 'ERP, that'll be expensive right?'.
> 
> I'm assuming/hoping that that 'more O the better' is tongue in check,
> because it'd be pretty silly to be really doing that .. we certainly won't
> be promoting that to potential clients.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ian
> 
>> Al
>> 
>> 
>>> On 19/05/14 08:53, Enapps :: Vadim Chobanu wrote:
>>> Hi Eva, its not a question of what can a company afford. Its a question
>>> of supply and demand.
>>> There are quite a lot of other competing erp solutions on the market
>>> that will bid for 20k to implement a system for 20 users. And by 20
>>> users i mean that will be 20 employees.
>>> Cheers,
>> 
>> 
>> 
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