SAP competitor for ERP?

[asymptote]

I'm doing some stuff in class about Enterprise Resource Planning and one thing we've heard of is SAP. Are there any competitors to SAP? Any free, open-source that you know of? Have any of you prepared ERP and if so can you talk about your experience? Thanks!

[ppesci]

My company probed with compiere, and that was fine, but at that time, compiere needed an oracle database (a free to use for not production system)

I hear about openbravo, and read some introduction manual, looks good but I never used it.

You can find these and other ERP in sourceforge.net, only search with ERP.

HTH

[asymptote]

Cool - I checked out Compiere and I'll be reading up on it more. Thanks for giving me a good direction to start searching :)