Hopefully someday we'll have all of that functionality in the main OFBiz project. It is all pretty generic, so chances are there is enough interest that it will be developed and maintained as part of OFBiz and of course licensed to make private changes private and derivative works unencumbered.
Until then, the OpenSourceStrategies crmsfa module is a pretty cool piece of software that integrates tightly with OFBiz, and you could use it and if you need to extend it by adding a page or something just contribute the extension back to OFBiz as a new page, or keep it an ofbiz-based resource that depends on the OFBiz entities and services and doesn't use any of the stuff in OSS/opentaps crmsfa.... If a enough people do that we'll actually have an incremental build path that will get us closer to having a full Sales Force Automation package in OFBiz.
-David On Apr 6, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Scott A wrote:
I've looked at Opentaps and agree that it would be a good start and it is in fact how I got to ofbiz originally but I would like to see it in the core ofofbiz.As I understand it at the moment, opentaps is distributed with a totally different license and while I don't know all of the legal ramifications, I am told by the people that I trust most that it would be a mistake for me tostart developing industry specific extensions based on that license.While I am am not opposed to sharing enhancements and giving back to the community, my industry specific mods are going to be for me only. I hope youunderstand. Walter Vaughan wrote:Scott A wrote:David,Like I said, I am a user plain and simple so I can’t get into all of the technical side of things. All I know is that I would like a CRM portionof ofbiz similar to how Sugar CRM works but with a good and solid email clientbuilt in. I guess it would take someone with the interest and technicalability to put the requirements together first.That said, I can only contribute with my wants and needs and some cash.I'dbe willing to throw $1000 into the hat to get this type of functionality.Where do I go from here?Have you looked at the Opentaps CRM-SFA modules for ofBiz? https://demo.opensourcestrategies.com:8445/crmsfa/control/login It's fully integrated with ofBiz and has a Ajax style email client.Maybe what you need is already available. If it's not, I'd like to hearwhat you need that I may not have already considered. -- Walter--View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Questions- about-the-future-of-ofbiz-tf3533557.html#a9877099Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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