Nice to see some discussion on these lists ;) My targets for Alchemi: - improve the framework with features required for corporate applications. Some examples would be redundancy, self-administration, automatic grid discovery and so on. - raise awareness by creating interesting applications. These will have to be non-scientific and something that a regular Joe would be interested in. I think we have to pass a certain threshold of users to really gain momentum.
Regards, Tibor > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:alchemi- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mitchem > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 4:18 PM > To: [email protected]; alchemi- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Alchemi-developers] Direction Setting > > Bringing it up for discussion... > > Right now, Alchemi seems to be primarily a research project, with > excellent commercial potential, but with very few commercial > deployments. > > I realize this is a source forge project and not a business, but I > kind of want to get a feel for the opinions on the future of the > project. > > How do you see Alchemi being used in the next few years? What is your > personal vision for this project? > > Do you see it just as a toy, something neat to mess around with; > something primarily for use in scientific/engineering applications; > something for use as a backend to business applications; or what? > > And where do you see it being used? Large Fortune 500 businesses, or > small programming shops, or manufacturing businesses, or something > else? > > I ask because while the project is interesting, and while we have a > pretty good understanding of where the project is going on a technical > level, I think we can benefit from some visibility and direction > setting on a usage and marketing level. > > In a way I'm looking at "how can we take Alchemi, which is an > excellent framework in itself, and start pitching the concept to > increase our user base and make something great of it?". Much like > what Red Hat did for Linux. > > Jonathan Mitchem > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=k&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 > _______________________________________________ > Alchemi-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alchemi-developers ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ alchemi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alchemi-users
