http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/OFBiz-Users-questions-and-suggestions-tp136582p136591.html
These are some interesting topics you're bringing up. Here are my thoughts:
1. I agree that the application's interfaces could be better. Please
2. Visibility is an issue as well. This is something that I have
off on their own. This is actually too bad: the project doesn't get
can give themselves and the project more visibility. I created a forum
>>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.
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>>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.
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>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.
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>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).
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>>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.
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>Thanks!
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>>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.
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>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.
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>>I hope this helps you a little.
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>It's useful, yes, thanks for your prompt reply!
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>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
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>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?
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>Thanks again,
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>David N. Welton
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http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/>
>Apache, Linux, Tcl Consulting
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http://www.dedasys.com/>
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