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This document is all about the question: Is Open For Business for Me? We have talked to many who are using or considering using Open For Business. We have also talked to many who are trying to leverage OFBiz in their business as a tool or a starting point for more focused endeavors. This document is based on all of that feedback and includes ideas from dozens of discussions with those who are benefitting benefiting from OFBiz right now.

There are many ways that OFBiz can be used, many different circumstances where OFBiz can be of value, and many organizations that could benefit from the use of OFBiz.

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With a little work the OFBiz applications could be customized to allow for the deployment of dozens or hundreds of instances on a single server. Most companies, even Ma' and Pa' car sales shops, could affort afford a couple or a few hundred dollars a month for a solution that takes care of their accounting, product and inventory maintenance, online as well as live sales, and the many other needs that such a company would have

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If you are a J2EE based application server vendor you are probably dealing with the question of how to differentiate your offering from the competition in such a saturated market. OFBiz has to have a good app server to run well. That's a given. The big opportunity for both of us comes into play when you consider that an app server can be benefitted benefited by those who are using OFBiz. We have helped many companies buy app servers to run OFBiz on. In general it is a great complement to any application server offering.

Offering OFBiz with your app server will not only give you a great eCommerce package and suite of enterprise applications, it also gives you an advanced, flexible framework that effectively uses many different open source tools. This can serve as a basis for an offering that helps your customers develop J2EE applications faster and more effecively effectively than ever before.

We have sample configurations for many different app servers, and configuring new ones is not difficult. There are no licensing fees for OFBiz, so you don't have to worry about increasing your price or costs.