It sounds like your impression is based on the dishonest opentaps
marketing that got Si Chen invited to leave the OFBiz PMC. For more
comments on that:
http://osofbiz.blogspot.com/2007/06/thoughts-on-ofbiz-derivative-works-pmc.html
Please understand that OFBiz does include complete and ready to use
applications, and also applications made of artifacts meant to be
reused in your own custom applications. It is not just a framework as
opentaps and Open Source Strategies would have you believe.
On an interesting side note, it seems that a number opentaps users
(including a few I have worked with directly) are currently moving
away from opentaps and back to plain Apache OFBiz. The main reason is
that opentaps is currently based on a release branch of OFBiz that is
over 2 years old, and in those 2 years the OFBiz community has far
outpaced the few full-time employees that work on opentaps (that is
more of a commercially driven open source project, and not community
driven like OFBiz).
On the other hand, chances are opentaps will update to the newer
release09.04 branch and then offer many of the features that people
are leaving opentaps to get from OFBiz itself. I don't know that for
sure, but Si Chen did ask a question a while back about the release
branch and to me this seems like a logical move for them.
That said, if you have no intention of participating in the community
driving the software you use, then opentaps may be a good option for
you instead of working directly with Apache OFBiz.
Also, bewares the ides of March! And by that I mean the HPL license
that opentaps uses... ;)
-David
On Jun 26, 2009, at 10:16 AM, su2 wrote:
I might sound stupid but I am new to OfBiz and Opentaps.
I understand is OfBiz is a platform and Opentaps is an application
built on
OfBiz.
I would like to know more differences between them if any.
I am still confuse between Ofbiz and opentaps.
Thanks in advance.
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