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| Answer Choices | Percentage | No. Responses |
|---|---|---|
| install or implement OFBIz for other people's businesses? | 80% | 59 |
| use OFBiz to run your own business? | 42% | 31 |
| consult in the ERP space and evaluate or recommend OFBiz to clients? | 31% | 23 |
| plan to look at evaluating OFBiz for your company's use? | 12% | 9 |
| Other (please specify) | 0% | 0 |
| Total Respondents: 74 |
Comments
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- The objective of this question was to find out what the community profile was like.
- This was a multi-answer question meaning that respondents could select more than one option.
- It was surprising for me to find that the majority of respondents are OFBiz integrators or offer OFBiz consulting services as considering how long OFBiz has been around I would have expected a larger end user community.
- Of the 9 respondents that were "evaluating OFBiz for their company's use" 6 of them were not integrators or consultants. This suggests that these 6 are in fact real end users.I suspect the end user community is a lot larger than this but perhaps they dont actively interface with the OFBiz community but rather with their OFBiz integrator or consultant. It would be interesting to survey this group further to gain more insights into their profiles.
- Also the fact that there are so many OFBiz integrators and consultants in the market means that they must think that there is adequate OFBiz business to support them.
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Conclusion:
- Currently the OFBiz project and mailing lists attract more integrators and consultants rather than end users
Question 2: Which version of OFBiz do you use?
| Answer Choices | Percentage | No. Responses |
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| Trunk | 28% | 21 |
| 13.07 | 35% | 26 |
| 12.04 | 26% | 19 |
| 11.04 | 8% | 6 |
| 10.04 or earlier | 3% | 2 |
| Total Respondents: 74 |
Comments and Conclusions:
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- The objective of this question was to find out what version of OFBiz was being used by the community and therefore give some insights on plans for supported releases
- At the time of the survey 12.04 was the current stable release and these figures show that 37% respondents were using 12.04 or earlier
- It would be interesting to understand why respondents are using these earlier releases - do they have problems with the upgrade path to 13.07 or is it that OFBiz is still performing what they need it to do?
- The high number (63%) of people using 13.07 and the trunk (NOTE: At the time of the survey unstable versions) could be closely related to the fact that the community profile is integrator and consultant rather than end user. The means that these versions are likely used for development and customer specific implementation.
Question 3: How did you install or implement Apache OFBiz?
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