On Nov 15, 2006, at 2:33 PM, Torsten Schlabach wrote:
sorry if you're annoyed, but I haven't found anything about this
subject in the archives.
Maybe I did not use the correct search terms. If you look at this
thread here, three other people have given the same answer, which I
read as: There's no real feature for that, you'll have to create
separate installations.
Not annoyed, just trying to point you to a long history of discussion
on this topic (partially so I don't have to write about it again....).
Did you search the old messages on the lists.ofbiz.org server (sorry,
I sent the wrong address in the last message, it is lists.ofbiz.org
and not mail.ofbiz.org)?
Did I misread anything? Any pointer would be very beneficial. If
there are good ways of doing this and nobody knows about it, it's a
pitty, isn't it?
In general, and this is probably most of what you'll find in the
archives, OFBiz is very big and complex and how it works out of the
box is not good for a bunch of small companies to be playing with.
The demand right now, and historically, has been from companies that
want customization and control over their data and their operations.
Running a bunch of instances on the same app server and in the same
set of database tables causes lots of problems and has very little up
side or benefit in these circumstances.
There are lots of people who run multiple customer facing sites in a
single OFBiz instance, all of which share data and are owned/run by
the same company.
If you want to build something like NetSuite or SalesForce.com based
on OFBiz, then you've got a lot of work to do outside of the
deployment arrangements as they are very different from OFBiz and to
a large extent serve a different audience. That sort of thing is
certainly possible as an addition to OFBiz, but to date OFBiz itself
has had no aspirations in that direction.
-David
Regards,
Torsten
David E Jones schrieb:
On Nov 15, 2006, at 2:01 PM, Torsten Schlabach wrote:
your suggestion does make sense; that's for sure. I got the
impression that this hasn't been a topic yet as OFBiz has
obviously not yet been discovered by hosting providers. (Well,
it has! We're one and we're looking at it.)
That's not exactly true, though it may seem that way because we
don't support the variety of shared deployment that you have in
mind.
Actually, in the last five years this has probably been discussed
about 2000 times. Okay, that might be a small exaggeration, but
realistically the number is probably about 40-50 and you'll find
all sorts of interesting insights by searching the current
mailing lists at the ASF, and even more on the old mailing list
archives at mail.ofbiz.org.
-David
