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What's up with Linux and ERP?
Monday, 02 August 2004, 18:57 GMT

For the past few years, chief information officers (CIOs) and chief technology officers (CTOs) have responded to my Linux evangelism with this question: "If Linux is so great, why aren't there any enterprise resource planning (ERP) apps on it?" Until recently, I only had SAP -- a Linux supporter since 1999. I told CIOs and CTOs that ERP companies are historically very conservative and don't usually port their applications until there's a huge demand.

This year, that's changed, and I can finally say that Linux is so great that ERP vendors had to have a piece of the action. Even better, there are open source ERP alternatives for midsized enterprises today.

Yes, SAP, the first major ERP vendor to get wise to Linux, is finally getting some real competition. PeopleSoft wants a piece of the action, too. Last month, PeopleSoft brought out a new tools package that will allow its Enterprise One suite (version 8.93 to run on Red Hat Linux, using BEA WebLogic infrastructure/software. Additionally, PeopleSoft promised in May that all its business software will be available on Linux.

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