Peter Pfaffner wrote: > - Everybody can edit wiki's. Well, that's the open way :-) > - I don't see how we could attract PC-Script-Kiddies to our platform. > Sorry but that's silly. Most of you recognized IBM-MAIN newbies by > asking simple questions. How many did you see during a year? How often > the response is "search the archives", see link http:xxx
I agree. A mailing list is an excellent way to carry on a pseudo-real-time discussion, but is an appaling way to document the output from those discussions. A Wiki would be an excellent medium for hardening the knowledge that bounces around in here, though it wouln't surprise me if some of the fossils disagree because they can't find it in 3.4. ;) > What do our customers complain about? Cost's !!! The CEO of one of the > biggest companies in Germany said to me "This platform is dead. There > is no freeware and BMC, CA, Oracle ... are using us as a milkcow". I'm > sure you've heared that too in some variations. I'm a huge fan of Open Source, and I'm rather disappointed that it hasn't gained a bigger foothold in our playground. I'd sincerely love to see some Open Source solutions to some of the somewhat less mission critical, what I consider to be overly expensive products, such as Omegamon/view, Escon Manager, SAS. (I don't intend to pick on any particular vendor - they are just 3 that spring to mind.) I don't believe many companies would be prepared to place their trust in open source databases or transaction managers, but in the areas of monitoring, reporting and hardware management, some serious, high quality projects might be in a position to save a large amount of cash, and make the platform as a whole even more affordable. Of course, there is the issue of WHERE to develop (legally) is an impediment. Ian -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-@ s: a+ C++ ULU+++>++++ P++ E- W+++ N- o+ K- !w O+ M-- V-- PS++ PE Y PGP(++) t+@ 5+@ X++ R+@ tv-- b++@ DI++ D G e@ h+ r--- y++(+++) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
