Zope3 / ERP Project Launched

Hi, 

We are happy to announce a Zope3 based ERP project. The Z3ERP 
(www.z3erp.org) web site should be online now or in the next minutes.

JPS.

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Zope3 / ERP Project Launched
no overhead, high performance

The goal of the project is to leverage the Zope3 platform and build an ERP 
solution based on ERP5 technologies with the capability of handling more 
than 1,000 concurrent users or 1,000,000,000 business records and compete 
with the famous proprietary ERP solutions. The project has been discussed 
with ERP5 developers and customers in Africa, Americas, Asia and Europe for 
now one year. Initial high performance experimentations have been conducted 
with success and give us the confidence that this goal can be reached.

Besides high performance, the project aims at providing full compatibility 
with Zope2 implementations of ERP5, developing Javascript Web user 
interfaces (AJAX) which increase enterprise productivity and are compatible 
with high latency WAN networks, creating predefined localisation guidelines 
and developing efficient model based configuration solutions.

The project will be organised through a series of sprints and experience 
build-up sessions. Sprint activities are open to experienced ERP5 
developers. Training sessions will be organised in parallel for experienced 
Zope developers who wish to gain ERP5 experience and  participate in the 
next sprint. Project events will be published on www.z3erp.org. The first 
project sesssion will happen during the DZUG meeting on September 22 and 23 
in Köthen/Anhalt city.

Preferred licensing of project is GPL. Hosting of the project is on a 
dedicated Erp5.org workspace. Any contribution must be GPL compatible (ex. 
ZPL). Copyright is assigned to contributor on a per component level. To 
prevent any legal risks resulting from mergers or buyouts, all code will be 
formally licensed to the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure 
(FFII), a global independent software association. All project code must be 
archived in the FFII repository.

Nexedi has already assigned 2 full-time engineers to this project.

More information can be obtained by writing at z3erp@z3erp.org

References

http://www.z3erp.org
http://www.erp5.org
http://www.dzug.org/organisation/
http://www.ffii.org

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Jean-Paul Smets-Solanes, Nexedi CEO - Tel. +33(0)6 62 05 76 14
Nexedi: Consulting and Development of Libre / Open Source Software
http://www.nexedi.com
ERP5: Libre/ Open Source ERP Software for small and medium companies
http://www.erp5.org