Andrew Panagos wrote:
>
> I may have been able to convince someone of doing just that if I had at
> least a demo running on our machines. But the time crunch was on and
> epicentric came in fast.
>
> Its difficult to get management to trust in Open source products even though
> I know the quality can be quite good. The questions always fall on what
> support is available. And who do they sue if things go wrong. There are
> billions of dollars at stake in this company dealing with b2b. And downtime
> costs them money but more importantly respect.
You don't sue anyone. :) For starters it doesn't cost you a dime and if
you do have problems you can fix it yourself :)
> I would love to give you access but I installed epicentric on an internal
> SUN box that is blocked out by the firewall. It is being used for
> development at the moment so there is no external access. We do have a
> requirement for someone to work on developing new modules for the portal and
> other servlets if anyone is interested. Houston, Texas.
How about screen shots then? Javadoc?
> I just basically installed epicentric on one of our SUNs for evaluation. I
> really haven't had much experience with it since I handed it off to another
> team. I can get someone who has been developing for epicentric to give their
> 2 cents worth.
I would love to see it!
> I am too busy with my team developing and trying to meet our
> deadlines. Hence I have been working on Jetspeed at about 12.00 midnight
> every night for the past week.
>
> One feature I liked with Epicentric was the admin module. It makes it quite
> simple to set up which feeds users can get and which groups have what and
> other admin duties.
I need to improve this region.
> It would be good if anyone has a clue as to how I can go about in getting
> Jetspeed to work on my machine.
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Why not just demo it on the SUN JDK 1.2.2. This hasn't *ever* dumped
core on me. The only reason you really need the IBM JVM is that it is
somewhat faster. You don't need super speed for a demo.
Kevin
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