Miles,
Well tried, from your argumentation I guess that
1) you certainly know Grail,
2) most of us don't,
3) you don't know much about OFBiz yet
So you try to push Grail and we brake on it. As David wisely suggested in
another email a POC is the way for you now...
Thanks for you interest in OFBiz
Jacques
From: <huang.mi...@gmail.com>
Just list some of the gains by different roles involved in the OFBIZ
ecosystem:
* For OFBIZ provider business owners and end-users:
As such a sophisticated business application, the training cost for new
comers is much high. The cost can be branched into 2 parts:
1) Learning the business model and logic implemented by OFBIZ
2) Learning OFBIZ's unique technical platform
The first part cost is no doubt value-able and unavoidable, because it's
closely related to the business and specific product.
But the second part is the cost that doesn't gain any direct benefits to
the business. So they like to find a way to cut down such cost. To find
a new developer familiar with Grails is much easier than find a new
developer familiar with OFBIZ platform, isn't it? The second part cost
can be cut down to 0 by hire a qualified developer.
* For NEW developers:
Assume the worst case, the new developers doesn't familiar either of
these technologies. Then he has 2 choices:
1) Spend 2 months to get familiar with the unique OFBIZ technical
platform, which may get the OFBIZ job done, but nothing else.
2) Spend 2 months to learn a technology like Grails, which can not only
solve the OFBIZ related requirements, but also suitable to solve a
wide-range of web development problems.
Which one do you think he/she would like to spend their time into?
* For current Experts:
They may need to learn a new technologies, but this is one-time cost.
After this, they can be released from the long-last technical platform
maintain task, concentrate on the core business issues.
Although I don't know them yet, I bet the maintainers of the OFBIZ
technical platform may have gathered a lot of improvement idea for the
core platform already, inspired by other leading platforms. But they
have limited time/effort to do so, or even just wondering: does it
worthwhile to re-invent the wheels?
-Miles
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 13:03 -0800, Adrian Crum wrote:
Miles Huang wrote:
> The problem an OFBIZ novice commonly facing is when he/she has to go
> further than the OFBIZ OOTB functionality ( which proves he/she is becoming
> a really OFBIZ user:drunk: ). He/she have to learn a lot of techniques in
> the unique OFBIZ way
> Theoretically the chance to migrate the whole
> OFBIZ package to Grails platform are possible (more serious research work
> needs to be done in this area), while keeping the strength of OFBIZ - the
> business level assets accumulated in years.
So we trade new users having to learn the OFBiz way for new users having
to learn the Grails way. What have we gained?
-Adrian
