David, Tim,
thanks for your comments.
I agree that in the project's web site there is already a description of
what OFBiz is.
Maybe we should just add a clear, short, statement about our final goal
at the top of the site.
In my opinion Tim has implicitly suggested a good one: "Our goal is to
build the best ERP system in the World".
A concise statement like this could catch people attention.
Jacopo
David E Jones wrote:
Tim Ruppert wrote:
Now getting back to the OFBiz project goal, I'm going to have to ever
so slightly disagree with our goal stopping there. While I agree that
OFBiz is a comprehensive enterprise information automation system -
and I'm WAY stoked to be working on it - I think that OFBiz is FAR
more than just a framework that people use to build applications. In
fact if OFBiz is just a framework - than what application out there
that takes some configuration (note that I didn't say customization)
isn't?
Just to clarify, I really do agree with this. Maybe if I took my scope
paragraph and split it into some bullet points it would make it more
clear...
In general though the goal of OFBiz is as stated on the home page. It is
meant to be a comprehensive enterprise information automation system:
1. the core of the project is intended to include a general framework
for efficiently building applications
2. plus a complete set of applications (data model, services, UI
elements) to automate general business processes and support "most of
what most companies need to operate"
3. on top of those we also have (and plan to have more of) a number of
more "special purpose" applications that are used for specific types of
users or organizations
-David
