Zope3 / ERP Project Launched

The goal of the Z3ERP 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 [email protected]

References

Zope3 - www.zope.org

Z3ERP - www.z3erp.org

ERP5 - www.erp5.org

FFII - www.ffii.org

DZUG - www.dzug.org/organisation

Nexedi - www.nexedi.com