Hi, This is little off track, I just searched on Google for ERP, Ofbiz does not come on the First page of Search :(
How can we have Google work for us? Regards Anil Patel On 5/19/07, BJ Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would like a phrase Like the "Core to all business functions With adaptability to specific Businesses" #3. one of the hard parts, up to now, has been keep up with the fluidity of the design and structure changes. I have a couple of time tried to align what i am doing with the current svn. Only to have the design change enough to make my effect ineffective. Now we have a official version I can adapt what I am doing against that. I would also like to see the implementation of using Get to do builds. #2 again, for someone like me, when major changes are done, with no discussion, it takes an in-ordinate amount of time to get my head around it to see what can be re-used and what has to be added. By then the changes have happened that makes that effort useless. #1. it would be nice to have something like the best practices to have a structure for this evaluation. David E Jones sent the following on 5/18/2007 8:55 PM: > > This is an interesting question... and one that should probably be > discussed frequently as things tend to change over time. > > 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. > The core of the project is intended to include a general framework for > efficiently building applications, 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". 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. > > The stuff that Jacopo quoted below was meant to tie into the "World > Domination" joke that was part of the JavaOne presentation. In other > words, it was a little tongue-in-cheek. Of course, these things could > really happen, and we're certainly on a growth curve and that may lead > to these things. > > Like you mentioned Jacopo, how much and how soon this happens will > depend on how much contribute to the project. > > The real key for that is pretty simple. If everyone who offers services > based on OFBiz, or who extends or customizes OFBiz for their > organization, or who create derivative works (open source or commercial) > would follow a little three step process whenever they develop > something, the project would have (with the current community, as I > estimate it from the hip) around 20-30 times the involvement it does now > (in SVN, Jira, mailing lists, etc). Here is the little three step process: > > 1. identify what is general or makes sense to parameterize and what is > specific to their requirements > 2. implement the general or easily parameterizable elements and > contribute them to the open source project (which will soon result in > streamlining that by the people involved becoming committers and PMC > members) > 3. configure or extend the functionality in OFBiz to meet requirements > being pursued > > The only reason OFBiz exists right now is that there are a number of > people and organizations who do this now, and have done this for a > number of years. > > It does require a little bit more work to do this, but mostly just when > getting started with and used to doing things this way. In the long run > because things are better thought out and more reusable for current and > future projects this actually results in far less work, and not by a > little, but rather by a LOT! > > So, there's my attempt at food for thought... and discussion. > > -David > > > Jacopo Cappellato wrote: >> Hi, >> >> in my opinion the community and the OFBiz project in general will >> greatly benefit if we explicitly define and publish (in the main page >> of the site) a general, ambitious goal for the project. >> Of course, each and every single step in the direction of reaching the >> goal will be uncertain and undefined in its details and will mostly >> depend on contributor's efforts, sponsors etc... >> However the final long term goal should be clearly defined. >> >> I think that we should start from the great plan that David prepared >> for the Java ONE conference: >> >> "- The Next 6 Years >> - First Year: Complete build out of enterprise applications for OOTB >> use by a wide variety of organizations >> - In 2 Years: the market leader for medium and large scale retail >> applications (ecommerce and POS) >> - In 4 Years: more installed ERP seats than SAP and more CRM seats >> than Siebel and SalesForce.com >> - In 6 Years: 20% of global economic activity managed with OFBiz" >> >> What do you think about this? >> >> Jacopo > > >
