Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Is this appropriate?

[little bark BIG BYTE]

Being the managing developer for myPHPnuke, I'd like to respond to this.:-)

What if?
All of the forks of PHP-Nuke, which by the way was developed from some other
weblogs, have been very good for the community as a whole I believe. Just a
year and a half ago choices were very limited, as were features. Because of
the expanded development base users have a huge selection now, with many
options.
I have looked at e-smith, from a developers point of view, and if and when I
decide to make a Linux distro, I have to be honest . . . it will be based on
e-smith.

Garret
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lars Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Is this appropriate?


> Since this devinfo-list more and more has taken the shape of an
> "opinion-list" lately, here's my contibution:
>
> I've closely followed the E-Smith project all the way since version 2 or
> so, and I've used (and I still use!) the technology from E-Smith
> professionally as well as privately, and yes I am a "customer" as well,
> - if you equals that with "someone who pays his support fee".
>
> There is of course no doubt about that the "E-Smith Concept" is a
> winner! It's simply the best server system I've stumbled into for small
> or meduim sized organisations!
>
> I just want to express my sincere worries for the future of the E-Smith
> concept as the roads seems to take maybe too sharp bends too suddenly.
>
> One of (but of course far from the only!) the most apparent reasons for
> a small or medium sized business to take a closer look at E-Smith used
> to be the unbeatable price/performance factors.
>
> Now this has suddenly changed very quickly, and I would find it hard to
> convince someone to choose an E-Smith-based server for his new business.
> The future feels too unsure, and if the customer would be in great need
> of a STABLE long term support license (most of them are!), how would I
> convince him that this is going to be a stable choice for quite some
> future? What would convince him that this move isn't going to be
> followed by another major price change in the future, - since Mitel
> already has showed they're capable of doing it once they could of course
> do it twice?
>
>
> I also feel worried for where all "good guys" in the "E-Smith community"
> will direct their contributions in the future.
> It wouldn't surprise me if this recent move from Mitel clearly is going
> to prove that "their" GPL-licensed products "live their own life".
> What if "the community" would thart to develop and distribute the
> E-Smith concept into some new direction, - ending up with the famous
> "PHP-Nuke/Post-Nuke/My-Nuke/Your-Nuke"-syndrome?
>
>
>
> ..Just an opinion, - no need to flame me......
>
>
>
> //Lasse
>
> > Jelmer Kuperus wrote:
> > >
> > > Ever heard of the phrase 'The customer is always right' :P
> > >
> > > Telling customers that they're clueless hmm what a novell ideam, got
to pass
> > > that on to the marketting dep.
>
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