The keywords in this discussion are sponsor, OFBiz, competitor. Sponsors mentioned are vc and giant. Another fact not mentioned but implied is that some VPs of Apache are also VPs of IBM or other giants.
Perhaps OFBiz is facing a deeper level of requirement: I'm proud I'm an OFBiz user. 在 2010-02-25四的 21:09 +0100，Jacques Le Roux写道： > From: "Ruth Hoffman" <[email protected]> > > Hi Jacques: > > Just to make my position clear: I am not advocating a "commercial project". > > I think it is possible to get commercial sponsorship and still stay > > community-driven. > > Great Ruth, > > have you an idea on how to begin on this? Looks like we have already some > sponsors but of course not the size of some other TLP > projects. I guess it's due to the nature of the software and not its quality > or anything else. > Here in France I know some French Companies who are using OFBiz, but none > want to speak about that. Some even sell (sold?) it as > their projects, with some marketing and an IT team around, of course... > You know what? Look at the French translation, you will better understand my > dissapointement some days... And I'm not speaking about > the Neogia team, which hopefully will help us much more some day. > > Jacques > > > Ruth > > > > Jacques Le Roux wrote: > >> From: "David E Jones" <[email protected]> > >>> So here we go... we've got a community-driven project and people want it > >>> to be a commercial project. I've been pushing for years > >>> for community-driven software and trying to attract developers to help > >>> build this thing, and for some history about that and > >>> concepts related to it please see my blog: > >> > >> Who really want OFBiz to be a commercial project? Not me for sure! > >> This is a visionnary project, not only at the technical level. It will > >> take time to prove without the same means than commercial > >> projects. Of course this does not mean that nothing should change, but > >> carefully. > >> > >> Jacques > >> > >> > >> > > > >
