On Thursday 07 December 2006 23:08, David E Jones wrote: > I finally listened to this today as I was driving. > > In general this was a great interview, hopefully we'll have some new > johns interested in the project... ;) > > One little correction about the history: there wasn't actually a > company that initially funded OFBiz. It is true that I was involved > in a couple of companies that failed and that were trying to do > similar things to what OFBiz offered, but it was only after they went > belly-up that I got OFBiz going. So, basically Andy and I worked on > this as we could for about a year, then tried both working for a > company that wanted to invest in OFBiz and become a premier service > provider but that company was not well run so Andy and I jumped ship > after about 6 months there, and that is when we were able to start > doing consulting full time based on OFBiz. So, it took about 18 > months to get OFBiz to the point where were could do consulting full > time based on it.
Whoops! My mistake. I'll make sure to correct it in the future. I thought the system had its roots in a homebuilding startup or something. I knew Partner Homes had done some work with the system but I thought there had been a business that existed before that. It has been some time since I was out in Utah. Am I completely inventing the idea that OFBiz didn't start as an Open Source project? I thought it was originally proprietary. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com
