Posted by
David Garrett on
Dec 05, 2005; 2:24pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Users-Apache-Software-Foundation-tp136603p136617.html
Hi all,
I am a long term "lurker".
I have a strong belief in Ofbiz and am actively trying to create a business
around it. Unfortunately I am not yet making "pretty good money from it".
But I would appreciate an education from those who are.
I feel that the decision to migrate to ASF should be one that David and Andy
are totally comfortable with.
I believe the product is ready for the broader visibility and I also with
Yoav Shapira's view that Ofbiz will be better in a few months and even
better again some months after that. I am sure the product will stand up to
scrutiny now.
I have a keen interest in the move to the Apache 2.0 licence and would like
to offer what assistance/time I can to aid this process.
If I can help please let me know.
David Garrett
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On Dec 2, 2005, at 5:26 AM, Yoav Shapira wrote:
>> going fairly well and I'm aware of dozens of consulting and other
>> companies that are making pretty good money based on OFBiz-based
>> services and solutions.
>
> Are you in touch with any of them? Do they have people who post (or
> lurk) on the dev/user lists?
You probably saw the response from Andrew Sykes about this. There are quite
a few service provider companies and a few individuals that do consulting
based on OFBiz. My rough estimate now is around 40-50 that we know about.
There are many that "lurk" on the mailing lists and participate from time to
time, especially if they see an opportunity to collaborate or if certain
issues coincide with different parts of their development cycle. There are
various others that are pretty active on the mailing lists and with code and
bug report/fix contributions, but a smaller number, perhaps 2 dozen people.
Of course this group varies over time as people start and finish projects
and move on to other things or move into more of a maintenance mode and
such.
Another pretty big group that is involved in the OFBiz community are the
end-users of the software. Some of these companies have technical teams
in-house and interact more with the open source project, but many of them
only interact with the community and open source project through service
provider companies. We have various clients that use OFBiz in this way. They
turn to us or other service providers rather than going directly to the
project. I think this is actually a very important part of the OFBiz
community as these companies, even if they don't interact directly with the
project, provide a good percentage of the resources that drive the project
forward.
I just saw the email from Ian Gilbert about this. He is part of an
interesting type of end-user company that is smaller, but technically
advanced and quite ambitious. I've seen a few smaller groups like this do
amazing things with OFBiz when they have skilled and ambitious people to
deploy and take care of the software, but many of the users are a bit
bigger. What's neat is that some of these groups that started out smaller,
like Ian's group, are growing significantly and hopefully OFBiz will remain
a good fit through some pretty significant growth.
-David
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