ofbiz & opentaps

[Neil Young]

Could someone help clear this up for me? The question I have is where ofbiz ends and opentaps starts. Its my understanding that they have very different licences but they always seem to be refered to together which gets quite confusing. Let me give an example;

I read in one of the official blogs (I think official) titled "A weekly summary of the new development changes to the Open for Business (OFBIZ) code base." And item 5 in that blog entry says the following "opentaps Financials now supports recurring invoices, scheduled transaction postings, and multi-vendor payment screens."

This entry makes it appear that the  official code base contains opentaps. It makes no distinction between the official code base which has one licence and opentaps which has another.

That is where my confusion is. Am I wrong or do we have to be careful what modules we install because each has a different license?

Sorry to be so long winded but I dont want to make a mistake here. Thanks.

[David E Jones]

All of Apache OFBiz comes from apache.org itself, namely the SVN  
repository on svn.apache.org. Anything that comes from elsewhere is  
NOT part of OFBiz.

The blog you are referring to comes from the same place as opentaps  
and the HPL licensed financials and crmsfa modules that are NOT part  
of OFBiz but rather are separate dual licensed (HPL/commercial) files.

For more information on those the proper place to ask is the opentaps  
resources, or Open Source Strategies which is the company that runs  
those.

-David


On Mar 15, 2007, at 9:17 PM, K9 wrote:

>
> Could someone help clear this up for me? The question I have is  
> where ofbiz
> ends and opentaps starts. Its my understanding that they have very  
> different
> licences but they always seem to be refered to together which gets  
> quite
> confusing. Let me give an example;
>
> I read in one of the official blogs (I think official) titled "A  
> weekly
> summary of the new development changes to the Open for Business  
> (OFBIZ) code
> base." And item 5 in that blog entry says the following "opentaps  
> Financials
> now supports recurring invoices, scheduled transaction postings, and
> multi-vendor payment screens."
>
> This entry makes it appear that the  official code base contains  
> opentaps.
> It makes no distinction between the official code base which has  
> one licence
> and opentaps which has another.
>
> That is where my confusion is. Am I wrong or do we have to be  
> careful what
> modules we install because each has a different license?
>
> Sorry to be so long winded but I dont want to make a mistake here.  
> Thanks.
> --
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>

[Neil Young]

Thanks for the reply David. Could you clarify one more point please?

On the main ofbiz page at http://ofbiz.apache.org/ it states the following;

"The Apache Open For Business Project is an open source enterprise automation software project licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0. By open source enterprise automation we mean: Open Source ERP, Open Source CRM..."

So does the "open source CRM" refer to something other than opentaps? I just want to be sure of what I get into before I start.

Thanks.

K9 wrote

Could someone help clear this up for me? The question I have is where ofbiz ends and opentaps starts. Its my understanding that they have very different licences but they always seem to be refered to together which gets quite confusing. Let me give an example;

I read in one of the official blogs (I think official) titled "A weekly summary of the new development changes to the Open for Business (OFBIZ) code base." And item 5 in that blog entry says the following "opentaps Financials now supports recurring invoices, scheduled transaction postings, and multi-vendor payment screens."

This entry makes it appear that the  official code base contains opentaps. It makes no distinction between the official code base which has one licence and opentaps which has another.

That is where my confusion is. Am I wrong or do we have to be careful what modules we install because each has a different license?

Sorry to be so long winded but I dont want to make a mistake here. Thanks.

[Walter Vaughan]

K9 wrote:

> So does the "open source CRM" refer to something other than opentaps? I just
> want to be sure of what I get into before I start.

It really depends upon your definition of what you define as CRM. If it's
"Customer Relationship Manager", well then ofBiz out of the box is a robust CRM.
If you need management of the salespeople who use ofBiz's CRM tools, then you
might want to look at Opentaps as an adjuct to your obBiz installation.

I am not aware of any other CRM enhancements to ofBiz that are published for
downloading.

Welcome to the ofBiz family. Hope you stay awhile.

FYI, for the most part we correspond with each other using our given names. You
might want to change you email account properties to reflect your name as "Neil
M Young" rather than a handle like "K9". The whole concept of ofBiz works
because of for the lack of a better term, "karma". We have to trust one another
to make this work. Hopefully you will get what I am talking about.
--
Walter

[Neil Young]

Thanks for the info.

Walter Vaughan wrote

K9 wrote:

> So does the "open source CRM" refer to something other than opentaps? I just
> want to be sure of what I get into before I start.

It really depends upon your definition of what you define as CRM. If it's
"Customer Relationship Manager", well then ofBiz out of the box is a robust CRM.
If you need management of the salespeople who use ofBiz's CRM tools, then you
might want to look at Opentaps as an adjuct to your obBiz installation.

I am not aware of any other CRM enhancements to ofBiz that are published for
downloading.

Welcome to the ofBiz family. Hope you stay awhile.

FYI, for the most part we correspond with each other using our given names. You
might want to change you email account properties to reflect your name as "Neil
M Young" rather than a handle like "K9". The whole concept of ofBiz works
because of for the lack of a better term, "karma". We have to trust one another
to make this work. Hopefully you will get what I am talking about.
--
Walter