Business in China?

Derek · **Joined:** Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:59 am **Posts:** 1

Found TinyERP is friendly and comprehensive

Any business already start in China?
I am interested

System Analyst
Derek

Yumi · **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:24 pm

Hallo Derek,

Knerz in Souzhou uses it in a company there. We in Beijing decided to use it and started setting it up.

However, we are using the development version 4.1.1 which is not quite stable and has a few problems. This is normal in a Beta version and does not worry me too much.

Also the Chinese translation needs some more work to it. I have just started to work on it but it also will take some time.

Where are you and what are your plans?

Michael, Beijing

knerz · **Joined:** Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:43 am **Posts:** 591

hi, I'm actually in Hangzhou. Yes we started here using tinyERP but until now we are still practising (means there's also the old way of doing day-to-day work). in the next weeks we're going to rely more and more on tiny but despite of giving the people time to get to know the program I'm waiting for the next major release. Would be nice if there is some information about that...

Furthermore I'd like to use this thread to kind of organise the people who are trying to use tiny in china just to make things easier for everyone. I'll update the following list according to responses (capital letters: native language):

Yumi · **Posted:** Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:58 pm

Anybody interested to create a small company with a tinyERP partner contract in China? Then develop a completely localised version and provide sales and support?

Michael

digitalsatori · **Joined:** Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:24 am **Posts:** 73

Just found that a German guy is maintaining the Chinese translation project. Salute to you, knerz.
I'm Tony from Shanghai, great to meet you guys.

Yumi · **Posted:** Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:48 am

I am also German. Seems that only German can joint this Chinese forum

kingkongmao · **Joined:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:23 pm **Posts:** 9

Yumi wrote:

Anybody interested to create a small company with a tinyERP partner contract in China? Then develop a completely localised version and provide sales and support?

Michael

I am in SuZhou, I am going to try tiny, and have a great interesting in deploy tiny erp on a thin client, produced by our company

Yumi · **Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:21 pm

Welcome Mr. Mao. Sound interesting your little project. When you try, do not touch 4.2.0-rc1. It is missing files among other things. But rc2 seem ok and is easy to install. Let me know if you run into trouble.
Michael

kingkongmao · **Joined:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:23 pm **Posts:** 9

Yumi wrote:

Welcome Mr. Mao. Sound interesting your little project. When you try, do not touch 4.2.0-rc1. It is missing files among other things. But rc2 seem ok and is easy to install. Let me know if you run into trouble.
Michael

Is 4.2.0-rc2 much better than 4.0.3? I use debian testing packages as it is.

and does 4.2.0 have a release plan?

Yumi · **Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:40 pm

I started myself with 4.1.1 seriously, so I do not know much about 4.0... But to my understanding 4.0 was only a intermediate release and the whole translation (multilanguage) thing has changed in 4.2.0. So I believe it is not worth putting to much work into 4.0. We just going to install rc2 as we have put data in and it would be ashame to ruin what we have.

They are talking about rc2 being a "stable" release. So I assume the final will be out in foreseeable future.

Are you using window OS?

Michael

kingkongmao · **Joined:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:23 pm **Posts:** 9

debian, we love using debian:)

I just begin to investigating tinyerp, so it would be quite a long time before we integrate the system with our company.

OK, let me introduce myself and my company. I work for JiangSu Lemote Corp. Ltd. (www.lemote.com)，All our product is based on loongson, a china self-developed CPU. It's a mips variant. Right now, the thin client is based on loongson 2E modal, running at 666Mhz, customized debian system with mplayer, firefox, etc. Since it's not a x86 CPU, it's virus-free to a great extend, I think:). So loongson + tiny ERP can be a great success!

We also planning a server product based on loongson 2F modal. All these machines and tiny ERP become a total solution suitable for median and small bussness. There's so many companies of this kind around JIangsu and Zhejiang.

I am not a manager, but a system software developer, and will also do some marketing work. After building a demo system, I am going to make proposal to my boss. I will let you know if I make any progress.

Yumi · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:00 am

I am Michael Mais, German living in Beijing. We had the longson presented at a meeting of the Beijing Linux User Group. Looks very good with little power consumption.

Once you have it ready, do not forget that there are many SME's in developing countries who just would love your box. And with multi-lingual tinyERP could be a winning combination. But for China it need some more Chinese input like translations, Tax-Forums and so on.

I am on Ubuntu a sort of Debian. My colleague got the debian version from http://debian.mirror.inra.fr/debian/poo ... lient/?M=D . RC2 should be there in a couple of days.

The advantage is that it comes with a startup script. When you switch on your box tinyerp-server just runs. No monkeying around with command line for users.

Michael

kingkongmao · **Joined:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:23 pm **Posts:** 9

I konw the situatioin, it's quite likely that we will join the development force if we are going to marketing tiny erp deployed loongson machine.

And a little correction, it's loongson, but not longson:)

knerz · **Joined:** Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:43 am **Posts:** 591

welcome, kingkongmao!

Would be nice if you become a tinyERP-fan and then can help improving the Chinese localisation.

knerz

Yumi · **Posted:** Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:19 am

Question to KingkongMao: Will your company be distributing loongson based hardware?
Michael