Should you customize an open-source ERP application?

Should you or shouldn't you?

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Mar | 18 | 2010

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I recently wrote a guest post for Si Chen of Open Source Strategies. In the post, I explore some of the considerations for customizing open source applications.

One of the issues that I have routinely seen over my years as a software consultant concerns customizations. On many a project, the functionality of a COTS application did not meet one of my clients current business practices. Invariably, this would beg the question, “Should we customize the system?” In this post, I’ll look at this from the angle of open source applications …

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