Is this for any vendor who wants free ads, or only for companies that 
support Apache projects ( and pay the salary for apache commiters ) ?

I think it would be fair and nice if projects would include such a page
in the releases, maybe next to the list of commiters who wrote the code.

Costin
 

On 14 May 2002, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:

> Please see:
> 
> http://jakarta.apache.org/site/vendors.html
> 
> If this is acceptable (this is the best I could do on my lunch break ;-)
> ) -- I'll go ahead and update the site and I'll supply a patch for
> mail.html that asks that folks don't post commercial ads to the mail
> lists rather supply a patch for the vendor page to be applied at
> jakarta-site2 committer discretion.  
> 
> If you have minor suggestions for this, please supply them in the form
> of commits or patches that correct any minor errors or improve things. 
> I'm not interested in creating the "vendor superpage".
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Andy
> 
> PS I realize www.superlinksoftware.com is down at the moment.  Its
> undergoing upgrades.  It'll be back up at the end of the week.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 09:32, Henri Yandell wrote:
> > +1 from me.
> > 
> > While it's nice to see committers who are able to commercially work with
> > the experience they gain/use here, it would be very demeaning to the list
> > for every company who are using jsp/servlets/other to post their
> > consultant services to the general list.
> > 
> > Hen
> > 
> > On 13 May 2002, Leo Simons wrote:
> > 
> > > +1 to all of that.
> > >
> > > - Leo
> > >
> > > > Sun Micro, has a page of "here are Java companies"  -- lets "innovate"
> > > > it and put up a similar Jakarta page -- Here are companies and folks who
> > > > support Apache Jakarta software.  I volunteer. Secondly, lets Make a
> > > > rule NOT to post advertising to the mail lists, that is NOT what they
> > > > are there for.
> > > >
> > > > This does a few things:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Provides a good rationale to companies to use Apache Jakarta Software
> > > > (not a specific goal of the group but a personal goal of several people
> > > > here including myself as I like working with GOOD software)
> > > >
> > > > 2. Gives those companies a place to post thats relevant to Jakarta,
> > > > won't annoy people who might otherwise use them.
> > > >
> > > > 3. Give those companies a high visability web page to advertise on.
> > > >
> > > > 4. God I don't need more spam.  My spam filter entries will one day
> > > > reach the limit on the number of strings I can match on.
> > >
> > >
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