Re: Who uses OFBiz?

[Marko Randjelovic]

> Hello,

> We're a F/OSS company looking at what exists in the ERP sector. We have
> internal needs and we have business development needs.

> We have been using OpenERP for a while but are quite dissatisfied with
> several points :

[...]

> OFBiz is at the opposite of these points : its DB schemas are based on
> standards, it doesn't have a central authority that wants your money,
> it's licensed under a permissive license, and it can already manage to
> live in lots of database.

> But we need to know who uses OFbiz and how? Who can we make new business
> with? Who already makes business with it? Is there room for new experts?

> The documentation is scarce and except if we buy books online (written
> for outdated versions) it will be a guessing game to know what it is.

You could take a look at http://www.openerp2tryton.com/. I wanted to
learn OpenERP, then I found out obout Tryton, but I made conclution
Python language is too unsuitable for me. Thus I am now considering
OFBiz.

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There is lots of documentation online and it is in the process of being improved.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Documentation+Index

Most of the books you can buy are up to date. There is a good book by Ruth Hoffman for development.
OFBiz Develope's Course Workbook. Apache OFBiz Development by Jonathon Wong, Rupert Howell seemed a bit older but it covers FTL and has info on entity. I do not have the latest Cookbook so can not comment on how up to dat eit is. I have an older copy and it has great coverage of how to do this  and that, so if ther is a specific project it covers it would be worth the cost. I did my development for like 2 months before I bought books. I bought all that are out there and it was not more than 500.00. Some are more for users than developers. Sharon Foga has one on Accounting I like, and one on MRP. Ruth has one on eCommerce. I was able to use PostgreSQL so it does support many databases as you pointed out. There are many great tutorials by Hotwax and on the main documentation. I believe I found at least three online that walked you through development of a hot deploy project, and I think Hotwax released another that looked good, so there is plenty of free help. We are using it to add inventory control to a Point of sale system written in ruby. I highly recommend OFBiz as it is well thought out. The building blocks provided give an excellent Java stack (can be deployed on windows, and Linux very easy and other platforms that support java). It has freemarker, and groovy built in. The entity engine is robust. I have found it an excellent environment to do our development in.

[Josip Almasi]

On 10/06/2014 09:29 AM, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
>
> You could take a look at http://www.openerp2tryton.com/. I wanted to
> learn OpenERP, then I found out obout Tryton, but I made conclution
> Python language is too unsuitable for me. Thus I am now considering
> OFBiz.

I've tried OpenERP about two years ago.
I love python as language, but dislike it as platform.
There's some site-packages and all libraries go under that dir - just
like in perl.
Then, upgrade python, and you're stuck.
Then, there's (in)famous GIL, making apps unresponsive.
Then, before release you have to freeze, meaning you give up upgrades.
So OpenERP folks tied to Debian.
Attempting to deploy on Red Hat ment wasting days to find the same
package with slightly different name or minor version.
And there's about a zillion or two packages required by OpenERP, meaning
guaranteed nightmare for any site maintainer.
... and so on.

In the meantime, pip changed that a lot - python packages are now in
domain of python, not OS.
I don't know how that reflects to OpenERP.

As for tryton, it's simple - web client is a must.

Regards...