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Re: Desktop Summit
by David on Tuesday 16/Mar/2004, @06:07
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"This is quite a tome... and I thought I wrote too much. ;-)"
Yer. Some thinks popped into my head as I was writing, and it continued....
"They're looking to have a simple tool that writes a dead language to counter a MS tool that has not been able to achieve market domination. While I'm interested in supporting novice users the rest of that is of no interest to me. I'm interested in building the best tool for the job. Also if you read their site they make some claims that are real turn offs to me like they are the first Linux tool that uses projects as well as the first visual development tool... Actually their copy looks as if they don't know we exist."
Yes, I see your point. Is anyone actually going to use what they are doing though, because it is quite clear people are using Quanta? However, as you say, that's their problem.
"You know IBM has Websphere too."
Yes I've seen it, and we evaluated it when I worked at our University Medical School. It is large, crap and worse - expensive. We spent good money on a Sun Server and Sun support to support a VLE for several thousand students. Quite wisely, we decided to use Zope and our existing PHP framework. It's the best decision we ever made, as we watched an all-Microsoft department next door grind to a halt through a simple virus.
"What they decided to do with their strategy is up to them. I'm not going to get worked up about it one way or another and I'm not going to spend a lot of energy on it."
Good plan.
"The next logical question is what are your credentials and do you have a pile of money? I'm not trying to discourage you. I'm just saying that this is not an easy proposition from a lot of angles, nor should it be. You have technical programming aspects, the social fabric of our current environment that is very productive, business and government influences and the incredibly challenging task of influencing corporate entities. From there the complexity grows. While there is a logical linkage on both sides the connection is like trying to connect power out of phase. It has the potential to do real damage to either side of the equation if not properly synced up and in order to be effective requires huge amounts of resource capital, a completely non standard business model, massive amounts of time and skill and huge risks by very talented people."
Spot on Eric - I think you're dead right there. I'm certainly not rich and I didn't envisage getting together a huge pile of cash or anything, or a KDE version of Ximian. Personally I think KDE has all the resources it needs at the moment. What I think is required is some serious thought and some organisation. Money may actually be the easy bit - you can see it. |
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