Comments on: Compiere ERP In Amazon’s Cloud

By: toby

toby — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:54:44 +0000

genuine prospect (25 people / $5m turnover) looking for ERP. thanks for your great blog posts. i get the technical point of single versus multiple instances, but dont you think it is actually more imporatant that with an SaaS system, the software is automaticaly updated. Yes, losing the on premises IT infrastructure is important, but equally so is the whole notion of updating. You dont patch your electricity supply. If online ERP is supposed to be a utility, then SaaS seems to have the best approach.

By: osserpguru

osserpguru — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:43:31 +0000

Lee-Lin, what I meant to say was that when you host a Compiere system on Amazon’s EC2 you get your own ‘private’ instance, as opposed to standard SaaS offerings where your application instance shares the operating system and other resources with other customers’ instances installed on the same OS. So the Compiere EC2 offering is similar in that sense to the traditional, on-premise ERP deployment model: a private, non-shared application instance. Hope that is more clear now.

By: Lee-Lin Thye

Lee-Lin Thye — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:30:58 +0000

I would have to submit 1 correction to the statement:
“Compiere’s EC2 offering tries to bring the good from both world – traditional on-premise ERP systems and modern SaaS offerings” to “…open source ERP systems and modern SaaS offerings”. Compiere is an open source ERP system, not traditional on-premise; unless I misinterpreted the intent of the sentence.