Tim Cook wrote: >This post doesn't directly affect me but I thought the information below >might help. > >On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 11:39, Bert Verhees (ROSA Software) wrote: > > >>>I looks to me on first sight that Bugzilla is designed for use under >>>Unix/Linux which I do not run. >>> >>> > >There is a Bugzilla distribution for Windows 2000 >http://www.parrus.com/project/bugzilla.htm > > Thinking about it, Bugzilla is written in Perl and works with MySQL, which both exists for Windows, also for Apache is a Windows-version. There is some information about it here: http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/2.18/html/os-specific.html#os-win32 It says that it does not run out of the box, setting up a linux-box might be easier.
And on the other hand, if someone is setting up a Sharepoint-environment which can also serve the needs, we should be grateful for that. But we have to be careful, as Tim Cook writes, it is often that Microsoft-software is not very friendly for browsers and Operating Systems which do not come from their house. So it should be tested if Sharepoint can deliver a web that is conform the w3-standard, which would look good, for a service committed in improving a standard. kind regards Bert Verhees There is a company in the Netherlands which delivers a Bugzilla-service: http://www.firstbase.nl/ Click on "ASP-diensten". I don't know about prices, I guess for a organisation as CEN or NEN, it would be peanuts. From that company I bought CVS-service about a year ago, which was about 50 Euro every month. And, surely there will be more companies offering this service. It takes no work at all, just a few telephone-calls. For a well paid (wo)man bungle around for a day (or two) could buy ten months of Bugzilla at a commercial ASP-provider (the fact is that in the company where I work the use of IE only is permitted in special cases, Outlook and Microsoft Office are prohibited, and the preferred workstations run on Linux) > > >>However, I am currently setting up a server under Windows Server 2003 and am >>installing SharePoint. >>I could set up a forum there which would be accessed over the WEB. This >>facility would permit documents >>to be downloaded/uploaded and could be a repository of designs, updates, >>findings and other documentation. >> >> > >Just as a caution. My experience with SharePoint over the past year or >so has been that it is totally unfriendly to Linux & Mac clients. >The EGADSS project had to finally abandoned it completely and move the >documents to SourceForge in order to provide multiple client support for >the project. (http://www.egadss.org) > > > > >> In addition I could easiliy set up a Yahoo Group for exchange of emails. >> >> > >The objection to Yahoo sign-up is noted. However, there is no >requirement for a Yahoo ID in order to participate on a mailing list. >You can subscribe/unsubscribe via email or ask the moderator to >subscribe you. > >Cheers, > > - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
