Openbravo, MySQL: Killer Open Source Combo Coming Soon
Openbravo — the open source ERP and point of sale (POS) specialist — is discussing a partnership with MySQL and exploring the virtual applications market, The VAR Guy learned while walking the aisles at LinuxWorld Expo. Here’s why solutions providers should take notice.
Based in Spain, Openbravo is backed by $12 million in new funding, a growing partner program and a new Ubuntu Linux Server effort. Translation: Openbravo seems to be on quite a roll.
Still, Openbravo has some key challenges. Most customers deploy Openbravo on Windows-Oracle or Linux-Oracle servers. But solutions providers and customers are pounding on Openbravo to offer its software on MySQL, the wildly popular open source database.
Paolo Juvara (pictured), chief products officer for Openbravo, concedes that his company has faced some coding challenges getting Openbravo onto MySQL. But he confirms the work is under way and should be done soon. Openbravo is also working to bring its software to IBM’s DB2 database.
Nice, but Openbravo’s server efforts don’t end there. The company is investigating so-called application appliances. In one potential scenario, an application appliance will integrate Openbravo with Ubuntu Server, running atop a virtualization system such as EMC’s VMware ESX.
Openbravo and Canonical are discussing how to move forward on such a project, which would allow VARs to quickly install and configure Openbravo on Ubuntu, because the virtualization layer shields customers and integrators from many hardware-oriented deployment tasks.
November 14, 2008 Update: : Openbravo has described how/when it plans to more fully support MySQL in this blog post
One wonders why the openbravo folks didn’t choose to just port to postgresql? postgresql is much closer to the featureset of Oracle – so much so, that you can find companies that specialize in making postgresql actually “work with oracle DBD’s”.
Openbravo works with postgresql. I have successfully carried out a few postgresql deployments.
Klavs,
Openbravo actually supports postgresql.
http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Openbravo_environment_installation#PostgreSQL_database
Then I’m only left wondering why it would be so important to support mysql, when postgresql is just as free (though not GPL, but BSD’ish license). Must be politics or simply customer pressure by people who for some reason don’t dare run postgresql as well 🙂 (I use both 🙂
Well – the customer is always right 🙂
Klavs, Here’s why:
“But solutions providers and customers are pounding on Openbravo to offer its software on MySQL”
Customer demand.
Jason Lee: Bingo.
Please visit Unofficial openbravo community support at http://openbravoforum.co.cc
Thank’s
But the big question is: is postgresql “support” a one-off, or is it central to using OpenBravo? I’ve followed Compiere’s site for several years, going back to when the developer(s) was asking for donations to port to Postgres, donations were accepted, but it never reached the magic threshold, Postgres was promised down the line, and several years later (sometime last year iirc) the only postgres info was one or two VARs came up with a script to install Compiere running on Postgres instead of requiring Oracle or MaxDB. If the situation has changed over at Compiere, I don’t know and don’t care anymore, I’m tired of it.
That’s not support for Postgres. I hope the situation isn’t similar for OpenBravo. Are (or will they be) all the docs MySQL centric? All the install guides, user guides, how-tos, videos, screen shots, etc. MySQL centric or will they be? Or is Postgres included in each guide, how-to, video, screen shot?
Java instead of PHP is tough enough to stomach. Failure to cover Postgres in all the docs and everywhere else a newbie or eventual user is going to look for help will only make it worse.
I correct myself. Postgres is one of two default databases (Oracle being the other). That’s good. Let’s hope MySQL doesn’t smother Postgres in the guides, how-tos, videos, screen shots, other, etc. going forward.
Now if we could get a port to Perl or PHP instead of Java…
Update: Openbravo has described how/when it plans to more fully support MySQL in this blog post
Guys any help configuring OpenBravoPos to use MySql as backend database
Ngoni: You should check in directly with Openbravo.
I agree on Compier intentions.Thay just look down on any free implementation I think thay getting kick back from oracle.
But bravo seem alive in this Mather.I use Mysql just because of the community support. I will not mind to use other database if is open for personal/business use.
So OpenBravo and PostgreSQL.
I think I will check in to that.
MySQL support for ADempiere is here – http://blogs.sun.com/praneet/entry/mysqling_adempiere