Hi guys I'm really interested in seeing this egg/chicken problem solved by getting something out the ground. for the visibility of Pharo and smalltalk in general. So I would love to see some proposals and some budgets to see how to Pharo association/ESUG/Consortium/other companies could put money on the table to get started.
Stef > >> My friend pays $350 month for a bunch of apps, and considers it money well >> spent. I think that the developer community has a tendency to compare the >> price of of services with the price of open source software (free) and >> assume that no-one will pay. In the commercial world though, the comparison >> is with what it would cost you for hosting PLUS sys admin.. which, for most >> organisations is both a pain in the ass and very expensive. > > Yes, any serious company making real money, will normally pay closer to > $1000/month and often much more for infrastructure. > > Regarding Heroku, I guess it would be a manageable, realistic project to do a > third-party build pack for Pharo Smalltalk, with interfaces to some of the > underlying infrastructure (Glorp for PostgreSQL, memcached, maybe also ampq) > and to integrate a bit in their ecosystem (logging, monitoring), using some > base image containing the necessary libraries, with some vm+image on dynamo > validation. > > There are many others (and thus examples): > > https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/third-party-buildpacks > > This does cost work and thus money. > > I know there are ways to monetize addons in the Heroku world, so that is a > possibility as well. > > Sven > > -- > Sven Van Caekenberghe > http://stfx.eu > Smalltalk is the Red Pill > >
