My evaluation was more feature-based. I had been watching both Opentaps and OFBiz for several years. I needed (or would soon need) the accounting functions that Opentaps offered when it split off from OFBiz. I hoped that eventually those functions would be integrated back into OFBiz, but Opentaps seems to be diverging from, rather than converging with, OFBiz in several important respects, although some Opentaps developers still seem to contribute to OFBiz code. When OFBiz became an Apache top-level project, that sealed the decision for me.
For me, OFBiz will probably initially be more work than Opentaps would have been, but I prefer to be on the mainline of the new feature development, and work with a code base that contributes back regularly. I think OFBiz has a stronger development team and model, and the features it once lacked (like accounting) are being added fairly fast as the project continues to grow. Neogia seemed like a better-behaved OFBiz derivative than OpenTaps to me, but language was an issue for us. My organization (except for me) does not speak French, and I had no time to translate documentation. -- Matt Warnock <mwarn...@ridgecrestherbals.com> RidgeCrest Herbals, Inc. On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 13:07 -0700, Mike Z wrote: > Not intending to start a war, but I evaluated OpenTaps (both the older > version and the new 1.4 versions) and what I immediately noticed was > it's huge memory footprint. > > Now I've worked with and deployed java applications for many years, > and have seen all kinds of problems, but the most insidious are memory > issues,. A poorly written java application will continue to chew up > memory resources, up to the point where java is forced to go through > garbage collection at frequent intervals. The memory usage usually > manifests itself as a gradually increasing sawtooh curve, that keeps > increasing over time. As long as java's free memory stays below > -XmXXX, all is well, but when the memory usage creeps up, you start > experiencing problems in the application. > > Usually during garbage collection, java will momentarily freeze, > depending on how much memory has been allocated (via -XmxXXXM) > > The first thing I noticed about OpenTaps was how huge it's memory > usage was (about 800MB initially), then creeps up. On the other hand, > ofbix (9.04) starts around 400MB and stays fairly constant. This told > me everything I need to know about OpenTaps, and made me immediately > run away from it. > > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:26 AM, sakthi vadivel <sakthi....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > Did anyone compare feature by feature above solutions. > > opentaps, ofbiz vs openbravo > > > > I am evaluating these options for a fairly large implementation and > > would be using PostgreSQL cluster. > > > > Thanks > > with best regards, > > Mukesh Marathe > >
