[infrastructure] What platform is OSfA built on?

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Ean Schuessler wrote:

> A clearer statement would be that we are running OFBiz under Apache 
> Tomcat. Drupal is a fine content management system but I think its CRM 
> capabilities are weaker than OFBiz. Managing member relationships is a 
> critical function.

Fair enough.  But that means it's a function that you are going to have to 
own -- until you can bring up someone else to implement new features, that 
is.  :)

> If you would like to run Drupal in the same context we could accomodate 
> you with Caucho Resin. I don't think managing content with the current 
> system has been problematic, so If I'm going to take time to set that up 
> I would like commitments on what will be built with it. Terri or 
> Melanie, have you found editing content to be a problem?

It's not the front end that matters; it's the backend.  A web content UI 
is a web content UI.  There are a billion of them, and most of them are 
fine.  What matters is the ease with which a newbie developer can show up 
on the mailing list, see a thread entitled "need help with X," and be able 
to step up and say "I know your technology well enough to help with X."

If you see heavyweight CRM as an essential function that makes ofbiz 
essential, that's fair enough.  We should be hitting every ofbiz mailing 
list on the planet and saying "hey, we've chosen YOUR FAVE TECHNOLOGY to 
run Open Source for America, and WE NEED YOUR HELP, OFBIZ SUPERSTAR!" 
Because Ean won't scale.

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