For sometime I have been promoting ofbiz to a larger Company. it is National with headquarters in One City and Multiple manufacturing and Assembly Plants in multiple States. They use VPN to tie all together.
My contact was impressed in ofbiz I showed him on the Demo site, while he was at home. He went to show others at work and it did not work well. His Company has a security rule that does not allow any JavaScript into their computers, as well all their internal websites can not use javascript. You can See the results by disabling JavaScript in your browser and look at the Ofbiz Demo. I have been given to the end of Sept to come up with a proposal on delivering the functionality but without JavaScript. The staffing for doing this is an additional 10-20 positions for 1-5 years. My problem is I have not found enough people that: 1)Understand the Design of Ofbiz 2)Understand the Modeling used based on the videos David did 3)willing to work with the tools that was developed in Ofbiz. 4)Know Ofbiz well enough to reuse code already available. 5)be able to develop code that will do the what is done in JavaScript but no use javascript. This project is worth 100's thousand US dollars. Of that, I am willing of use 10% to fund those working on the project to augment ofbiz in the same spirit. The focus of this email is maybe the ofbiz team should re-think the direction OFbiz is going.
