Ofbiz End User Perspective: I'm an end user of Ofbiz for ERP and very happy with it; When I needed to build an eCommerce solution I was considering cloning the specialpurpose/ecommerce and building eCommerce frontend from scratch; but I wasn't sure if I could do this alone with my Fulltime Job; but when I found Bigfish in this mailing list I adapted the same as it covered most of what we needed; <Why re-invent the wheel>; The fact that Bigfish is distributed with Apache license with the source code available for download, offers flexibility to extend when needed; and also it works as an add-on module which allows to plugin Bigfish with the latest Ofbiz release and build on top of latest Ofbiz features when desired; Nick & Team are constantly adding new features and making contributions available for download, which works great for us; as we get all these great features for free which saves us a ton of time;
Regarding Bigfish emails in this Mailing list: Primarily I have seen three kinds of emails from Nick & Co namely Bigfish Success stories; New releases; How Bigfish solves a particular problem; As an adapter of Bigfish/Ofbiz for eCommerce, I look forward to these mails; and consider Bigfish to be a good eCommerce derivative of Ofbiz and will help adaption of Ofbiz as an eCommerce solution by an end user; - Regards Sakthi On 7/30/13, Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: > Some users have had other experiences, it's why Paul posted this comment (we > exchanged on it). > > Not everybody is able to separate the good from the less good. I can't > officially confirm which follows since it did not happen to me. But for > instance, if someone without much OFBiz knowledge picks BigFish for you. > Because it has a better looking, but finally it's not quite suited for the > work at hand. Then it can be a bad experience. This might also depends on > versions you use. I guess newer are better, but again, I can't confirm. > > This already happened with previous forks. Note here that I don't know if we > can really call BigFish a fork. Since I never worked with it and it seems to > follow OFBiz, not the trunk though. > > Without speaking about Opentaps, Neogia for instance got even itself in > trouble (and some projects which followed its 1st version) and had to change > its strategy. > With Neogia addons, it seems you have now the best of both worlds. Though I > never worked on a project with them, just tested simple cases. > > My opinion: better working straight ahead from OFBiz (releases or trunk). > And maybe, as you said Skip, pick here and there good ideas, and even code > (addons seems safer), but no rely on external whole code (repositories or > releases). > > My 2cts so far > > Jacques > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Skip" <s...@thedevers.org> > To: <user@ofbiz.apache.org> > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 7:19 PM > Subject: RE: BigFish Promotions > > >>I am loath to get involved in this, but I for one want to thank Nick and >> company for their highly useful contributions which have been freely >> provided. >> >> Thanks Nick >> >> Skip >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Paul Piper [mailto:p...@ilscipio.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:18 AM >> To: user@ofbiz.apache.org >> Subject: BigFish Promotions >> >> >> Perhaps to not further derail from poor Vitthals post >> (http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Formal-Discussion-td4643139.html): >> >> I have no problem with people advertising their own work - in fact, up to >> a >> certain degree it helps the community. However, I think that the constant >> promotion of BigFish has crossed the mark quite a bit and has come to the >> point where every new member is getting greeted by a bigfish welcoming >> message. >> >> I am not trying to bash anybody’s work here, but merely pointing out that >> the implementation of Bigfish is far from complete. It isn’t a simple >> labeling factor either – it simply isn’t done in full. When a product >> doesn’t deliver what it is supposed to do, it is false advertisement. >> >> Again, I have no problems with anybody promoting its own work, but I also >> don’t want people thinking that Bigfish = OFBiz, when in fact it is far >> from >> it. A quick search on nabble reveals that there have been 242 references >> towards bigfish, the majority being promotional. Sorry, but that isn’t >> “rarely responding with BigFish examples” in my eye. So perhaps this can >> be >> limited somehow? >> >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/BigFish-Promotions-tp4643157.html >> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > -- Sent from my mobile device
