";s:4:"text";s:3677:" A special thank you from the Plementus Team goes out to their very own technical consultant, Ramadan! The margins on services do not allow to finance the activities of a software vendor: massive investments to develop the product, building a brand and a worldwide partner network. High-level comparison: Odoo Community vs Odoo Enterprise. The reconciliation widget code will be moved to the Enterprise repository, as the feature was not accessible/visible in Odoo CommunityWe do not "close" open source codes. From this date, it has been a fantastic journey. In addition to our open source product Odoo Community, we developed extra proprietary apps as Odoo Enterprise. You will always be able to fork and maintain the Odoo 12 Payroll if you need it (or adapt it to Odoo 13). In 2015, we announced a pivot in our business model. We only had a few weeks of cash available.
From a business point of view, the switch was necessary. If we did not invest massively in the product, Odoo Community would have been deprecated in a few years, as it happened with other open source ERPs.
Odoo has released new version 12 in October and no doubt it accomplishes all daily needs in business, no matter what industry they belong to. To launch the new open core model, most new features were developed in Odoo Enterprise. (Bank Statement Imports, Billing Digitalization, Budgets, Checks, Consolidation, Localizations, Reports, ...) The split between the two products has been detailed in the editions page, and we followed this direction since then: But I consider it's better for the end-user if an app is fully open source or fully Enterprise, not a mix of both. That way, the success of one drives the success of the other: Odoo Enterprise benefits from the visibility created by millions of community users, and Odoo Community benefits from a part of the improvements made on Odoo Enterprise.Most of our developments concern improvements of existing modules, not new apps.