Re: Defining the OFBiz's project goal

[Tim Ruppert]

Yeah, I think if we can spend a little more time marketing ourselves to everyone - not just developers - we'll find that even more companies will appreciate what OFBiz has to offer. The only thing that commercial companies like Elastic Path (eComm specific) have on us is marketing and a big fat price tag. We can do this.

Cheers,
Tim
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On May 19, 2007, at 5:00 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

+1 for Jacopo and Tim's sentence proposition. A bit of humour also may

peple interested in OFBiz are enough clever to understand a bit of it
:o)

Jacques

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Objet : Re: Defining the OFBiz's project goal

be good, but I agree not in front page. Though, who knows ? Most of the

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.

build the best ERP system in the World".
A concise statement like this could catch people attention.

Jacopo

David E Jones wrote:

In my opinion Tim has implicitly suggested a good one: "Our goal is to

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

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