----- "Pierre Smits" <[email protected]> wrote: > Re: I welcome the suggestion made by David to have each of us explain > our own motive for participating in this project.
We use OFBiz because it is the most mature Free Software solution we have found for dealing with "real" e-commerce that has inventory and manufacturing needs. We no longer use OFBiz as a solution for the presentation or content management layer because we feel its capabilities in that space are outclassed by other solutions. We are starting to do a lot more mobile and HTML5 based interfaces that rely on OFBiz for handling the underlying business processes. The combination of the license and capabilities are our motivations for using the tool. We also have a lot of experience with the OFBiz internal structure and are hesitant to start over. Our current focus is on building solutions around the tool rather than trying to innovate in the tool itself. The capabilities we utilize in OFBiz are well established so we have not had to make many general purpose modifications. We have also become much more aggressive about "mashing up" the "best of breed" to achieve solutions rather than trying to duplicate capabilities from scratch. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [email protected] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com
