After infiltrating corporate operating systems and middleware products, open
source software has in recent years moved into enterprise applications with
great success.
Within Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship
Management (CRM), many companies have enjoyed a blossoming of open source
software. By harnessing the collective wisdom, experiences, expertise, and
requirements, the model has ensured that needs have been rapidly met while
the open source code has provided the wanted flexibility and low cost.
Everything made possible through the Internet, which has enabled easy
zero-cost distribution and improved global collaboration. By leveraging large
user communities the software products have grown fast and made it possible
for open source companies to challenge major proprietary vendors.
Up till now Human Resource Management (HRM) has been an a... (more)