1. RE: ATTN: EUPHORIA Programmers
Sabal.Mike at notations.com wrote:
> When we're talking about real-world programs, I assume we mean ERP (ala
> SAP), POS, PDM, and accounting programs for the business world.
I would say so.
> Programs like this tend to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to
> develop on an enterprise scale. Most enterprises are less than willing
> to invest in a project that doesn't meet the CEO's "staying power"
> criterion. "Staying power" is generally defined in CEO terms as a
> healthy position on the stock exchange for at least a year. There's a
> real chicken & egg situation for this type of thing, and that's not
> likely to be resolved anytime soon.
Well, actually there are some signs that this is happening:
SAP AG has released their flagship database Adabas into Open
Source as SAP-DB. And inside my company we are porting all our
databases to Firebird SQL, the Open Source version of Borland's
Interbase.
There are also already serious developments going on for Open
Source ERP and CRM software. From my pov it will only take about
one or two years to level the playing field for Linux in this
respect.
I can say at least this: for my own company it is already an
issue to move our development projects over to a development
environment that can support Linux as well as Windows 
Hans Peter Willems
2. RE: ATTN: EUPHORIA Programmers
>From when they first started attacking Linux, I always found the Microsoft
>Linux hidden cost claims to be easy to see through pure propaganda crapola. It's
>only out of lack of knowledge that anyone believes it. You don't even need
>official support- you just need Gurus and/or linux literate, experienced
>administrators... many of which are looking for jobs these days.
"C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed
>
>In particular, this paragraph for all you EUPHORIA programmers:
>
>"You've pretty much gotten by with off-the-shelf software. Was it tough to
>find everything you needed in the open-source world?
>Yeah, there are some things that are tough to find, like payroll software.
>We found something, and it works well. But the developers need to start
>writing the real-world applications people need to run a
>business...engineering, art and design tools, that kind of stuff...They're
>all trying to build servers that already exist and do a whole bunch of stuff
>that's already out there...I think there's a lot of room to not just create
>an alternative to Microsoft but really take the next step and do something
>new."
>
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