Jeroen, AssetMaint application was developed to support maintenance of fleet or other kind of machines and is still used by more then two parties (Adrian's employer and my previous employer) in community for sure. I also have started (not made lot of progress yet because of time constraint) to built asset maintenance application tuned for IT shop. So really Ofbiz does have lot of examples of verticals.
No pressure, its upto developer of software to decide if it should be given away and under what license. We love all the framework contributions coming from your company. Thanks for that. Thanks and Regards Anil Patel HotWax Media Inc http://www.hotwaxmedia.com/apache-ofbiz-blog/ofbiz-tutorial-custom-components-in-ofbiz/ On Dec 3, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Adrian Crum wrote: > Jeroen van der Wal wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Adrian Crum <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Jeroen van der Wal wrote: >>> >>>> I don't think Ofbiz benefits by adding industry specifc >>>> features; keeping the existing codebase stable and testable already >>>> requires >>>> a lot of effort from the community. I personally would like a clearer >>>> separtion between the Framework, Core modules and Add-ons but that is a >>>> different discussion. >>>> >>> The specialpurpose folder is intended to be used for industry-specific or >>> role-based applications. Apache OFBiz encourages that type of development, >>> and Apache OFBiz does, indeed, benefit from it. >>> >> So far no industry-specific solution made it to the special purpose folder >> (perhaps maybe e-commerce), has no one buillt a solution on top of Ofbiz >> before? And if everybody would contribute their specific solutions will >> Ofbiz then not end up being all but nothing? > > Well, maybe you could help make real estate management one of the first > industry-specific solutions to be included with OFBiz. > > If Apache OFBiz included several industry-specific applications, those > applications would demonstrate the abilities of OFBiz. What better way to > show off the platform than to have different applications built from it? > > -Adrian >
