+1 Regards Scott
On 15/12/2009, at 4:48 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
I believe any integration with existing chat/twitter-like services would be useful.From my perspective, it would be best to build into OFBiz a gateway to these external services. In other words, take the same approach we use with external payment processors. I believe that would be less complicated and more flexible than integrating a specific service into OFBiz.-Adrian 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 possibilityin e-commerce for new users to ask questions via chat. I looked at 2chat open source frameworks. Then ESME was proposed here in the mailinglist. 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 businessenvironment: developers/marketeers exchanging ideas, announcing news andproblems. (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 aboutESME 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 fromthis environment now getting exposed to OFBiz because we are looking atESME 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 gettingto know so much new people in such a short time. David thanks for the support because it looks like that the OFBizcommunity has a problem accepting new functions like this one, even ifit 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 whatthey are doing... more info at http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ESME/Collaboration+with+OFbiz any thoughts? regards, Hans (@hansbak)
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