LAMP ERP

Linux based open source software packages offer the richest and most rapidly evolving applications.

ERP or Enterprise Resource Planning also entails the normal accounting operations required in a small and medium sized business, the integration between the post-mortem analysis functions, planning procedures and the basic data collection and organizational functions required for a backbone business information system leave business planners wanting an integrated package of data processing functions to interface with the planning procedures.

Linux based open source software packages offer the richest and most rapidly evolving applications. That Redmond Washington vendor can enter a market and abandon it in a matter of a few years, leaving users with unsupported application software. While the life cycle for a release of a desktop operating system may be less than five years, many ERP implementation last two decades or more. Elements of major million dollar ERP software packages contain business logic with roots in the Fortran and Cobol of the 1960’s.

Certain SQL based packages lack much business logic entirely and the relatively new, but robust procedural language of the Oracle flavor, Plsql is developing and creating an inventory of business logic. But licensing costs drive information system specialists to continue to use applications based on the Unix operating system and the known source code model. These models rely on vendors like Redhat and Novell to maintain expertise at a lower cost while providing the option to ‘go it alone’ that indeed major banks and telecoms exercise.

Linux, Apache, MySql and PhP combine to provide applications for the business community, and with the use of Perl banking providers like Paypal provide incredibly robust and yet secure micro application environments that employ technology in innovative and profitable ways. But businesses that merely outgrow the Quickbooks model, which lacks the aforementioned integration desires that forward thinking business owners seek leave small manufacturers for example to look at packages of the next tier such as Peachtree, MAS-90 and even the Redmond solutions.

However, businesses might come across three very innovative vendors that use Linux as a basis, yet provide compatibility with Windows and Macinstosh for the most part. Linux in the previously mentioned telecom operations provides the least downtime, and many times Oracle has used Linux to set world records in the database transaction processing arena. For more information on visit www.web-atlanta.com for more information on open source modeled and Linux based LAMP ERP solutions.