There are quite a few individuals and organizations that offer
services for Apache OFBiz, there is a list of available on a wiki page
here:
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Apache+OFBiz+Service+Providers
It is a very good idea to make sure that your service provider agrees
to contribute back as much as possible to the project. If they were by
all was first looking at and what can be changed and added in the
project and then what needs to be built based on that there is usually
very little overhead involved in contributing back. On the other hand,
if they first build things totally separately and then try to re-
factor or rewrite them in order to contribute them back to the project
there is a lot of overhead and it often does not work out.
-David
On Jul 16, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Leonardo Ruoso wrote:
I was dreaming about it. I'm sure it could be easier if we get some
paid
support and development: Is there a recommended way to get this paid
services -- yet strengthening the ofbiz community?
2009/7/16 BJ Freeman <[email protected]>
Java knowledge I have found is less than 35%(subjective view) of
what is
required for ofbiz.
You have a mini-lan to grasp plus a head jerk from object to entity
data
storage. Also he way ofbiz displays data is totally different from
using
database driven systems.
But it is doable.
Leonardo Ruoso sent the following on 7/16/2009 12:59 PM:
http://www.modaematacado.com.br is a good reference in portuguese.
Our
developers have good Java knowledge, but no previous experience with
Ofbiz.
We are thinking that Ofbiz is the best Open Source e-commerce
Solution to
adopt for this project, because we'll need a lot of workflow
control.
The project is for a new startup company
Leonardo Ruoso
2009/7/16 David E Jones <[email protected]>
The short answer is yes.
A slightly longer answer is: there is a 90% chance that 60-90% of
the
functionality you need/want will exist OOTB in OFBiz. To qualify
that
statement I should say that the statement above is almost always
true
and
actually it's hard to say more without a lot more detail...
I can say based on what you wrote that some development will be
required,
or in another way of looking at it: some development/
customization will
be
easier and cheaper than trying to work around it in deployment,
manual
processes, or external systems (again though, this is often the
case).
-David
On Jul 16, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Leonardo Ruoso wrote:
Saudações,
I'd like to know how much Ofbiz could help me deploy an eletronic
outlet
mall. Resellers will login, add products from several diferent
factory
stores and checkout. Ofbiz should create one order for each
store and
the
eletronic outlet mall staf will receive all the goods from all the
stores,
pack it and mail it to the custommer. Revenue is based on
COMMISSIONS,
so
we'll not resale anything.
TIA,
Leonardo Ruoso
--
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Systems Integrator.
