Re: is there some ofbiz modules for hotel managmet and reservations

[Hans Bakker <ma...@antwebsystems.com>]

Hi Manuel,

Originally i designed the 'shared' ofbiz system (opentravelsystem.org)
based on ofbiz, also multi-tenant, for hosting travel agencies and
hotels for ecommerce. I stopped further developing it.
The Hotel PMS is a well established and conservative market currently
badly hit by the bad economy. I did several investigations and it will
be very difficult to market your system as a commercial product. 

If you could make your product open source now you would have a much
better chance to succeed, even more when you would include it into ofbiz
as a special purpose component. Your company should specialize on the
installation and service to local Hotels and help others with the
implementation. If your extension is a special purpose component with
ofbiz you would have support from the OFBiz community and your
maintenance costs will be much lower. Further you will get support of
ofbiz experts in the further development and you can guarantee your
customers support from many companies. You still would have the most
knowledge about the system and give expert advice.

You could also consider implementing the opentravel standard as
published on opentravel.org. As far as i know there is not yet an open
source opentravel system.

I would like to offer you help to include it into ofbiz and that your
implementation agrees with the ofbiz standards.

please reconsider the marketing of your product.

Regards,
Hans


On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 08:48 -0500, Manuel Desdin wrote:
> we are almost there with a PMS first version based on ofbiz, we call  
> this product Iguana Inn. but it is already a 3 years effort of 4  
> programmers, a manager and and. it is all prepared to be offered under  
> apache licensing for the community at a later stage, but before we get  
> there i need to recover commercially from all this development. if you  
> check back one year ago and little longer in jira entries, you will  
> see some posting from vsirkova, we tried to get together with the  
> community but there was no real interest in our efforts at that  
> moment. you are welcome to be part of our efforts and also to get  
> commercially in touch with us.
> regards, manuel desdin.
> 
> On 31 Jul 2009, at 06:32, Carsten Schinzer wrote:
> 
> > I remember reading something of the sort of "OpenSource Travel  
> > Agency" in
> > the demo material.
> > However, what exactly are you looking for here:
> >
> > I assume the modules you mention would be specific functionality for
> > Property Management, e.g.
> > * managing room occupation
> > * managing cleaning and housekeeping
> > * reservation of rooms/beds
> > * billing and cash
> > etc. ?
> >
> > As I believe OFBiz is looking at regular businesses and knowing the in
> > Travel things tend to be very different, I doubt there would  
> > anything be
> > lying around ready-for-use except accoutning.
> >
> > If you are willing to open a "Travel business stream" in a separate  
> > project
> > and as an extension to OFBiz, I would be interested to take part !
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > Carsten
> >
> >
> > 2009/7/28 DigitalStream <di...@yahoo.com>
> >
> >>
> >> hello
> >>
> >> i want to ask is there some ofbiz modules for hotel reservation and
> >> managment ?
> >>
> >> 10x
> >> --
> >> View this message in context:
> >> http://www.nabble.com/is-there-some-ofbiz-modules-for-hotel-managmet-and-reservations-tp24707789p24707789.html
> >> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > -- 
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Carsten Schinzer
> >
> > Waisenhausstr. 53a
> > 80637 München
> > Germany
> 
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Re: is there some ofbiz modules for hotel managmet and reservations

[Anousak Souphavanh <an...@gmail.com>]

Hi Hans,

I realized you've done opentravel system based Ofbiz i tried to download new
Ofbiz version but it does't have Opentravel. Would you tell me whether this
system is still an Open Source, if so is there a way i can get a copy?
Please suggest. Thanks.

Anousak
Email:anousak@gmail.com <Em...@gmail.com>
Laos

On 8 2, 2009 8:42 AM, "Hans Bakker" <ma...@antwebsystems.com> wrote:

Hi Manuel,

Originally i designed the 'shared' ofbiz system (opentravelsystem.org)
based on ofbiz, also multi-tenant, for hosting travel agencies and
hotels for ecommerce. I stopped further developing it.
The Hotel PMS is a well established and conservative market currently
badly hit by the bad economy. I did several investigations and it will
be very difficult to market your system as a commercial product.

If you could make your product open source now you would have a much
better chance to succeed, even more when you would include it into ofbiz
as a special purpose component. Your company should specialize on the
installation and service to local Hotels and help others with the
implementation. If your extension is a special purpose component with
ofbiz you would have support from the OFBiz community and your
maintenance costs will be much lower. Further you will get support of
ofbiz experts in the further development and you can guarantee your
customers support from many companies. You still would have the most
knowledge about the system and give expert advice.

You could also consider implementing the opentravel standard as
published on opentravel.org. As far as i know there is not yet an open
source opentravel system.

I would like to offer you help to include it into ofbiz and that your
implementation agrees with the ofbiz standards.

please reconsider the marketing of your product.

Regards,
Hans

On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 08:48 -0500, Manuel Desdin wrote: > we are almost
there with a PMS first ver...
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