As many of you know, we at Emforium have been busy building out a full set of business software application to provide an "ALL-IN" comprehensive solution for the small business market. When we started the evaluation over a year ago, Ofbiz was the selected platform of choice. Other components are Zimbra for email and concrete5 for web.
Over this time, we've spent our efforts providing an entirely new UI front end for the backend applications: sales order, inventory, CRM, admin, reports, multi tenancy, published datasets (makes solution targeted for any market or geography), etc... We have expressed privately that Ofbiz needs to have a new mission in order to really drive it's importance and relevance as an open source project. As it stands, it's scope is very wide, and not targeted a providing and out-of-the box solution to any problem, save ecommerce (even then, lot's of styling work usually needed). We would be 100% behind this direction for Ofbiz. We'd want to contribute back components now that are Emforium proprietary and would work to reduce the amount of deviation between our proprietary solution and this newly stated direction. Marc
