Difference between OfBiz and Opentaps

[su2 <sh...@pexsupply.com>]

I might sound stupid but I am new to OfBiz and Opentaps.

I understand is OfBiz is a platform and Opentaps is an application built on
OfBiz.

I would like to know more differences between them if any.

I am still confuse between Ofbiz and opentaps.

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Difference between OfBiz and Opentaps

[David E Jones <de...@me.com>]

It sounds like your impression is based on the dishonest opentaps  
marketing that got Si Chen invited to leave the OFBiz PMC. For more  
comments on that:

http://osofbiz.blogspot.com/2007/06/thoughts-on-ofbiz-derivative-works-pmc.html

Please understand that OFBiz does include complete and ready to use  
applications, and also applications made of artifacts meant to be  
reused in your own custom applications. It is not just a framework as  
opentaps and Open Source Strategies would have you believe.

On an interesting side note, it seems that a number opentaps users  
(including a few I have worked with directly) are currently moving  
away from opentaps and back to plain Apache OFBiz. The main reason is  
that opentaps is currently based on a release branch of OFBiz that is  
over 2 years old, and in those 2 years the OFBiz community has far  
outpaced the few full-time employees that work on opentaps (that is  
more of a commercially driven open source project, and not community  
driven like OFBiz).

On the other hand, chances are opentaps will update to the newer  
release09.04 branch and then offer many of the features that people  
are leaving opentaps to get from OFBiz itself. I don't know that for  
sure, but Si Chen did ask a question a while back about the release  
branch and to me this seems like a logical move for them.

That said, if you have no intention of participating in the community  
driving the software you use, then opentaps may be a good option for  
you instead of working directly with Apache OFBiz.

Also, bewares the ides of March! And by that I mean the HPL license  
that opentaps uses... ;)

-David


On Jun 26, 2009, at 10:16 AM, su2 wrote:

>
> I might sound stupid but I am new to OfBiz and Opentaps.
>
> I understand is OfBiz is a platform and Opentaps is an application  
> built on
> OfBiz.
>
> I would like to know more differences between them if any.
>
> I am still confuse between Ofbiz and opentaps.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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Re: Difference between OfBiz and Opentaps

[su2 <sh...@pexsupply.com>]

Hi BJ,

Sorry but I am not able read the language on the suggested link page. 

Thanks.
 

BJ Freeman wrote:
> 
> based on
> https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=882884
> By: Si Chen (sichenProject Admin) - 2009-01-09 13:13
> me too: please post here once in awhile and let me know how your group
> is going.
> 
> Now word about ofbiz and opentaps: we will be deprecating more of the
> ofbiz things in favor of open source projects like Spring and hibernate,
> and a few others that are less well known, but also very high quality.
> So, while understanding the ofbiz framework will certainly continue to
> be important, there are also a lot of other technologies here now in
> opentaps.
> 
> 
> su2 sent the following on 6/26/2009 9:16 AM:
>> I might sound stupid but I am new to OfBiz and Opentaps.
>> 
>> I understand is OfBiz is a platform and Opentaps is an application built
>> on
>> OfBiz.
>> 
>> I would like to know more differences between them if any.
>> 
>> I am still confuse between Ofbiz and opentaps.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
> BJ Freeman
> http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation
> http://bjfreeman.elance.com
> http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro
> Systems Integrator.
> 
> 
> 

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