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Tryton is a fork of [[OpenERP]]. A comparison of Tryton and OpenERP is available at [[!wikipedia Comparison_of_Tryton_and_Open_ERP]]. Another comparision can be found on <http://www.openerp2tryton.com/>

List of companies that offer services based on tryton: <http://www.tryton.org/services.html>

Based on a comunity with it's own foundation. <http://www.tryton.org/foundation/index.html>

Mailing Lists: 

- <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tryton> General discusion group
- <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tryton-dev> Technical discusion group

Links:

- [[!wikipedia Tryton]] - Wikipedia
- <http://www.tryton.org/> - Project homepage
- <http://hg.tryton.org> - Source code
- <http://www.ohloh.net/p/tryton>

## Technical

- Python for server
- Python/GTK+ for desktop client 
- Web client in development (Repo: <http://hg.tryton.org/sandbox/sao>  Demo: <https://demo.tryton.org:8000>(there is some issues with certificates))
- Application to manage user portals connected to erp. <http://openlabs.github.io/nereid/>
- Forked from [[OpenERP]] in 2008 -- [[!wikipedia Tryton#Origin_and_history]]
- Migrations from versions are full supported. 

## Preliminary evaluation

### Positive

- Documented modules
- Modular application, wide range of modules
  - Official modules: <http://hg.tryton.org/modules/>
  - Comunity modules available on bitbucket, see
    - <http://bitbucket.org/trytonspain>
    - <http://bitbucket.org/zikzakmedia>
    - <http://bitbucket.org/nantic>
    - <http://bitbucket.org/pokoli>  (and others).
    - Also avaiilable on pypy  <https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=tryton&submit=search>.
- Separated client and server presumably making collaboration easy
- Can create reports -- [[!wikipedia Tryton#Technical_features]]

### Negative