Posted by
davidnwelton on
Nov 25, 2005; 3:56pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/OFBiz-Users-questions-and-suggestions-tp136582p136584.html
> It's always nice to get some feedback like this, Si has been working
> hard on making OFBiz more palatable to the movers and shakers, and I'm
> sure he'll read your comments with interest.
> We have some plans on the look and feel front, but bear in mind OFBiz is
> growing rapidly, so it isn't high on the agenda at the moment.
Part of it is probably just a graphical touch up by someone who is
good with that sort of thing. That's not really a big deal, I think.
Of more concern is managing the complexity presented to users of the
system. It's a tough problem, and perhaps one that is simply not
possible to deal with in a generic way. A lot of google's
applications (gmail, for instance) are a good example of the direction
that good applications will go in, I think. Gmail is easy enough my
mom can use it despite being new to computers, and yet it's not
limiting for me (it's the first web mail system that doesn't drive me
buggy, infact).
> David (E. Jones) and I were recently in contact with a large client who
> was asking some of the same questions you are, one of the emails with a
> lot of the info you're looking for is attached below. It doesn't answer
> your specific question, but will give you a good idea of what to expect.
Thanks!
> OFBiz has pretty good granular security control, so it is possible to
> limit user access both at the application level and the
> application/feature level. So you don't need to overwhelm users with a
> sea of irrelevant features. See the ltdadmin user account for a very
> simple example of this.
Cool. I think all the pieces are probably there, it's just a matter
of how much time it takes to put them together. The 'competition' in
my case is the internal system that's been put together a mix of
things that isn't pretty to look at but does work.
> I hope this helps you a little.
It's useful, yes, thanks for your prompt reply!
Our situation is most likely not a huge load of concurrent users
(although it's good to see that this scales linearly), as right now
we're doing tens of thousands of web site hits a day, but a huge
quantity of products for sale in the DB. Luckily for now we don't
have to worry about stocking a very large portion of those physically.
We'll probably keep the web front-end we have now as it works pretty
well for our products, and is mostly statically
One other question - ofbiz does have a community, and people using it
for their businesses. So it's good design built on working code that
does something pretty complex. Yet it doesn't strike me as being
visible in the open source world... I'd heard of compiere even though
it was a subject that didn't interest me prior to this job, but ofbiz
was something I discovered only when I went hunting for it. Any
thoughts on that?
Thanks again,
--
David N. Welton
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