The financial module is very important module in ERP system, OFBIZ shuold has mature financial functional itself, no to replicate or deprecate Opentaps, Opentaps is the commercial product that make very different with OFBIZ, it has its own roadmap.
Yes, you are right, time will tell, and I believe OFBIZ will become more success and more popular. 2008/1/9, Jacopo Cappellato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > As you all probably already know, we are completing the gl > accounting/financial support in OFBiz. > > A few minutes ago I've answered the following question posted by a user > in the OFBiz wiki site about it and about the relation with the Opentaps > financial component; I think that this subject is interesting and so I'm > posting the Q&A here: > > ============================== > Question: "Is it OFBiz's long-term goal to replicate/deprecate all of > the functionality in the opentaps financials module? Or do you picture > opentap's financials as always being a superset?" > > Answer: "I'd say that the *short-term* goal is to provide a simple but > complete gl accounting/financial module; right now the OFBiz component, > that is in 'alpha', is feature rich and has some features that are not > available in Opentaps. > This is the official financial component for OFBiz, but it is not > correct to say that we will "deprecate" the Opentaps financial > component: we have no control over Opentaps (and of course we don't want > to control it!), because it is an independent and separate project... > and I'm pretty sure that they (Open Source Startegies, the creators of > Opentaps) will continue to use their component, because they have more > knowledge over it, they have invested a lot of resources etc... instead > of the official OFBiz component. > I think that the most natural thing is that, if a user will choose > OFBiz, then will use the integrated OFBiz financial component; if the > user will choose Opentaps then will use the Opentaps financial component. > But time will tell." > ============================== > > Jacopo > > >
