[software] Update from Donor.com

[Josh Berkus]

Bradley,

> Josh, what is the state of your broad evaluation of all the
> ERP/workflow/accounting systems?  I think we'll still need that as a
> first step, if for nothing else than to answer FAQs about why we started
> again from scratch.

Previous evaluations were posted to this list.  I didn't finish evaluating 
TinyERP because I got distracted by Donor.com; I'll do that now.

My assessment is that no ERP package supplies us with both a clean API on 
which to build new functionality and an ability to handle fund accounting.  
All ERP packages do give is a lot of baggage in the form of cost 
accounting and the like which we don't actually need but will have to 
account for.

Current leaders:
xTuple: clean API
OpenBravo: fund accounting

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL
San Francisco