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“This is a final wakeup call for the people involved in shipping and logistics industry, either you shape your business around technology or you ship out”, says Andrew Goldman of Global-Edge, who led a recent study on how various key industry sectors have evolved to compete and maximize their profitability with the use of technology.

It is hard to believe when I hear that the Compiere Community is split and the splinter group has started a project named ADempiere! I would like to see, as neutrally as possible, the impact of this move, by the break away group, for the end users.

If I recollect, it was in 2001 I came across Compiere as an Open Source project and subsequently I began to admire the determination of its founder Jorg Janke to keep the project going in Open Source. It is definitely not easy for a business application like ERP, CRM and SCM to survive in an Open Source fashion like the Linux Kernel or an Operating System bundled with GNU utilities. ERP is 20-30% software and 70- 80% customization and implementation.