Jeff Ramsdale wrote:
Hi all,
[..]
With the utmost respect for the Project I observe that Cocoon is a bit of a
fringe product as far as web development is concerned.
[...]
Hi Jeff,is there a particular reason why Cocoon might have special appeal to Europeans? Is there something about the mindset of European programmers that leads them to Cocoon? Is Open-Source Software viewed differently, on the whole, in Europe than America? Does this have anything to do with Microsoft's influence in America? I guess that's more than one question! Interested in your observations... Reason I ask... I live in Seattle (Microsoft-land), and I'd love to find work using Cocoon and/or Java (but especially Cocoon!), but I don't see as much mindshare here as I think it deserves. Jeff
I am an European, I am Swiss. And as a Swiss I never could explain things to you in English as detailed as in my own language. I'll try it anyway.
I don't know the situation in the United States but I think there are not so many "one-man-companies" as in Europe. We got a lot of little companies which can't afford the very expensive products of Microsoft. If you work with Linux/Unix Systems you get automatically into the open-source world and you start to look around what's good for you.
I could imagine that lots of Americans just don't get in touch with open-source-sw because they only use commercial products (which are supported by someone so they don't have to solve problems...)
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in a world without fences and walls who needs gates and windows?
Greetings
Sorin
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