Hi Anil:
I'm sure this will start an avalanche of responses all directing vitriol
towards me. Rest assured I don't take any attacks personally:
First off, IMHO, encouraging community contributions IS a problem for
OFBiz. The "community" as you so correctly point out is one of software
developers. There is much more to bringing a product to market, or more
importantly, surviving to play another day, than software development
and copious amounts of code contributed to a source code repository.
Secondly, OFBiz will never survive, let alone grow, if there are no new
adopters (end-users, service providers or whatever you want to call
them). I further argue that the project won't get any new adopters by
sticking its collective head in the sand and ignoring real world issues
like release management, quality control and my favorite, documentation
and training.
And to your point about selling "services". I'm curious. Since you
brought it up, what services does HotWax sell that help promote the
health and well being of the OFBiz project? Or is that not what you do?
Maybe I don't understand.
Well I for one feel really comfortable saying that I sell a "product"
that helps promote the health and well being of OFBiz. Probably the only
one out there? Not only that, my product is reasonably priced to
encourage new OFBiz adopters. If you can afford to buy a week's worth of
Starbuck lattes, you can afford to purchase my product. Does that make
me a "Company" backing OFBiz? LOL!
Regards,
Ruth
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Regards,
Ruth
Anil Patel wrote:
Here is another blog http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10458449-16.html
One interesting issue these Company driven projects are struggling (evedent from reading these blogs) with is, encourage community to contribute. In Ofbiz we don't have this issue, Ofbiz is build on the concept of "Community driven software development"
I feel confident that OfBiz will live longer and grow much more quickly then usual
software open source software dragged by corporations. Ofbiz service providers can focus
on their core activity "Sell services", and not really wonder around to get
funding to keep project alive and moving.
Thanks and Regards
Anil Patel
HotWax Media Inc
Find us on the web at www.hotwaxmedia.com or Google Keyword "ofbiz"
On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Anil Patel wrote:
Jacques,
Why do you think so?
It does not take too long to use 3M euros. And they are trying to make
community contribution thing work for them, We got it working for years.
In case of OpenERP, One provider is dominating the community. In case of Apache
Ofbiz we don't encourage that. Its up to providers to decide how they want to
use OfBiz for building their business.
Thanks and Regards
Anil Patel
HotWax Media Inc
Find us on the web at www.hotwaxmedia.com or Google Keyword "ofbiz"
On Feb 24, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Maybe the future of OFBiz in Europe (and even in USA it seems) will be harder...
http://fptiny.blogspot.com/2010/02/openerp-raises-3-million-euros.html
Or maybe this ERP will not be Open-Source longer in the future...
Actually it was the last of the Open-Source ERPs to not follow this way (though
I"m not sure for ERP5)
The strategy :
http://robertogaloppini.net/2009/06/01/open-source-business-strategy-openerp-and-long-term-sustainability/
Jacques
