The new OFBiz GL accounting/financial component

[Jacopo Cappellato <ti...@sastau.it>]

As you all probably already know, we are completing the gl 
accounting/financial support in OFBiz.

A few minutes ago I've answered the following question posted by a user 
in the OFBiz wiki site about it and about the relation with the Opentaps 
financial component; I think that this subject is interesting and so I'm 
posting the Q&A here:

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Question: "Is it OFBiz's long-term goal to replicate/deprecate all of 
the functionality in the opentaps financials module? Or do you picture 
opentap's financials as always being a superset?"

Answer: "I'd say that the *short-term* goal is to provide a simple but 
complete gl accounting/financial module; right now the OFBiz component, 
that is in 'alpha', is feature rich and has some features that are not 
available in Opentaps.
This is the official financial component for OFBiz, but it is not 
correct to say that we will "deprecate" the Opentaps financial 
component: we have no control over Opentaps (and of course we don't want 
to control it!), because it is an independent and separate project... 
and I'm pretty sure that they (Open Source Startegies, the creators of 
Opentaps) will continue to use their component, because they have more 
knowledge over it, they have invested a lot of resources etc... instead 
of the official OFBiz component.
I think that the most natural thing is that, if a user will choose 
OFBiz, then will use the integrated OFBiz financial component; if the 
user will choose Opentaps then will use the Opentaps financial component.
But time will tell."
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Jacopo

Re: The new OFBiz GL accounting/financial component

[guo weizhan <gu...@gmail.com>]

The financial module is very important module in ERP system, OFBIZ shuold
has  mature financial functional itself, no to replicate or deprecate
Opentaps, Opentaps is the commercial product that make very different with
OFBIZ, it has its own roadmap.

Yes, you are right, time will tell, and I believe OFBIZ will become more
success and more popular.


2008/1/9, Jacopo Cappellato <ti...@sastau.it>:
>
> As you all probably already know, we are completing the gl
> accounting/financial support in OFBiz.
>
> A few minutes ago I've answered the following question posted by a user
> in the OFBiz wiki site about it and about the relation with the Opentaps
> financial component; I think that this subject is interesting and so I'm
> posting the Q&A here:
>
> ==============================
> Question: "Is it OFBiz's long-term goal to replicate/deprecate all of
> the functionality in the opentaps financials module? Or do you picture
> opentap's financials as always being a superset?"
>
> Answer: "I'd say that the *short-term* goal is to provide a simple but
> complete gl accounting/financial module; right now the OFBiz component,
> that is in 'alpha', is feature rich and has some features that are not
> available in Opentaps.
> This is the official financial component for OFBiz, but it is not
> correct to say that we will "deprecate" the Opentaps financial
> component: we have no control over Opentaps (and of course we don't want
> to control it!), because it is an independent and separate project...
> and I'm pretty sure that they (Open Source Startegies, the creators of
> Opentaps) will continue to use their component, because they have more
> knowledge over it, they have invested a lot of resources etc... instead
> of the official OFBiz component.
> I think that the most natural thing is that, if a user will choose
> OFBiz, then will use the integrated OFBiz financial component; if the
> user will choose Opentaps then will use the Opentaps financial component.
> But time will tell."
> ==============================
>
> Jacopo
>
>
>