Hi Jacopo,
This is my understanding of the conflict in interest:
1) Ofbiz as an ecommerce focused application with ERP that is developed
on top of unstable trunk and kept updated via svn and patches.
versus
2) Ofbiz as a stable shrink wrapped ERP application that has
professional releases and smooth updates (e.g. for security). Also, the
separation of Ofbiz as a standalone modular development platform with
add on ERP modules.
Cheers,
Chris
Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
On Nov 13, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:
Hi Chris:
IMHO: Having watched the project for a long time now, I think it is time for a
fork in the road. There are too many competing interests here.
Uh... I am missing your point now: what are the competing interests that you
are mentioning? I don't see any competing interest in this thread.
This sort of reminds me of Unix before AT& T let BSD birth. No? And look what
that spawned :-)
Yes, it could become the Linux equivalent for the OFBiz world... or it could
become one of the many thousands of forks (the 99%) in the history of software
projects that just are ignored.
Jacopo
Ruth
Christopher Snow wrote:
Thanks BJ - that's the conclusion I'm starting to reach.
Perhaps it would be worth some of us like minded people to getting together?
BJ Freeman wrote:
I had the same complaint at one time.
I now keep my own version under a different brand name.
That is about all you can do.
Christopher Snow sent the following on 11/13/2009 2:40 AM:
Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
On Nov 13, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Christopher Snow wrote:
I was thinking about your comment of leaving the components in place
even though they are not used. Does leaving unused components in
place have a performance impact on ofbiz? Do those components
consume memory? - they are certainly using disk space. Some of the
components for example BIRT consume a fair amount of space.
Disk and memory are very cheap nowadays...
I think I have answered your other concerns in another email.
Jacopo
Disk and memory are cheap nowadays, but small businesses don't see it
like that, for example David Jones' ezBiz will be competing with
lightweight applications like OpenERP.
Also, there's the security issues of having code running that isn't
required.
Anyway, I get the picture. A modular ofbiz is not an option! People in
control like ofbiz just the way it is - it suits their business model.
