Why would someone start a new open source ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) project, is the question that people ask me again and again. If I knew what it takes, I said, I would not do it! But I did not know that in 2006 when I started to write my own ERP in Python and MySQL. I had just joined my family business (furniture manufacturing) and the company was reeling under a bad ERP implementation. It was a local vendor who was building it out on the .NET platform and after sinking a reasonable sum of money, he was not able to get it right. At that point, my faith in the entire ERP industry was pretty low. Either they were too expensive or they were very buggy.
Later I heard the same story from many of my users. But in all my foolishness and enthusiasm, I started writing out my own ERP system. I was always a hobbyist programmer and maybe I had too much faith in my ability, but somehow we got started. In a couple of years though, the famil