Hans, thanks for taking the extra time articulating all of this information - and no I don't think people are just giving you a hard time. I, for one, appreciate you telling us all a bit more about the infrastructure and how it can be utilized - and am all for it!
Thanks for bringing it to the table and for providing such a great description. Cheers, Ruppert -- Tim Ruppert HotWax Media http://www.hotwaxmedia.com o:801.649.6594 f:801.649.6595 On Dec 12, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Hans Bakker wrote: > Some users are wondering if ESME is useful to add to OFBiz or not, > therefore some promotion why I think it is interesting and yes I have > business cases for it: > > 1. It started with a request of our customers to have a chat possibility > in e-commerce for new users to ask questions via chat. I looked at 2 > chat open source frameworks. Then ESME was proposed here in the mailing > list. My opinion is that if ESME can do chat too, then better go for > ESME so we have also twitter functions. (as Tim also stated) > > 2. ESME allows to use the twitter principle in a protected business > environment: developers/marketeers exchanging ideas, announcing news and > problems. (yes you should use OFBiz in your company to see these > benefits) > If you are still not convinced of twitter in a business environment: get > a twitter account and follow me: @hansbak i will keep you informed about > ESME within OFBiz and you will have the opportunity for point 3 as a > bonus. > > 3. ESME was actually born in the SAP environment and many people from > this environment now getting exposed to OFBiz because we are looking at > ESME too and the ESME people "retweet" my ESME experiences to their > network of twitter accounts. > > I was not convinced about this twitter stuff but using this for my ESME > investigations has shown me that it is actually pretty exiting getting > to know so much new people in such a short time. > > David thanks for the support because it looks like that the OFBiz > community has a problem accepting new functions like this one, even if > it does not affect their usage of OFBiz. So please people, not too > conservative and always be open to new developments! > > Regards, > Hans > > > > > On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 16:30 +0700, Hans Bakker wrote: >> Proposal: >> >> We are looking to copy an ESME server within OFBiz as a component to >> allow for twitter like messaging within the OFBiz environment. >> >> users coming on the ecommerce site can 'twitter' a message which is >> monitored by the system admin, who can answer the questions. >> >> Logged in users can follow other registered users and can twitter what >> they are doing... >> >> more info at >> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ESME/Collaboration+with+OFbiz >> >> any thoughts? >> >> regards, >> Hans (@hansbak) >> > -- > Antwebsystems.com: Quality OFBiz services for competitive rates >
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