I would second the opinion that it absolutely depends on the purpose and more importantly the size of the company. If the goal is to get an ecommerce store up and running quickly magento is currently the better choice, as it is easier to find proper themes for it. So if you have a limited budget and are fine with the features magento offers, go for it.
But that is where the benefits end. Having implemented several stores with both magento or OFBizi must say that feature-wise OFBiz is superior. At least once you replace the html and trim it down (as we did with www.syracus.net). Magento hasn't been updated in recent years - in fact, people are still waiting for version 2.0 to come out. If you actually do the switch you will find that Magento is actually pretty buggy (give the product csv import a go and you will see what i mean) and it isn't necessarily more comfortable to deal with once set up. There is a SAAS based version of Magento available, which isn't to expensive to use - if you want to give it a try, I'd suggest to look at it there, and you'll see what i mean when I say "buggy". On top, it is a php based software, so "combining" both will result in you having to develop a webservice based API through which either systems communicate. I can tell from experience that this isn't an ideal way to handle any system and has severe limitations. So to summarize: Magento isn't a bad system and has its usefulness in smaller-scale ecommerce setups. If you have to deal with more complex business processes or want to modify the store beyond the themes, I'd suggest to stick with OFBiz and rather look into a more modern webstorefront (almost all agencies have one) and/or wait for www.cato-commerce.com to come out, which will solve the problem of not having a nice interface for a complex solution. -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Ofbiz-vs-Magento-tp4645041p4645047.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
