Ted Roche wrote: > On 4/20/07, Vince Teachout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's unclear from your post what your client is supposed to be > considering. I wasn't aware just how unclear it was, until you started asking questions. I'm looking for basic "What is Open Source" and "Why is Open Source a GOOD thing?" type articles, preferably with statistics. He has a 2 main products that are written in VFP. When I made the offhand remark that there is a push going on to try and get VFP source to become open source, his reaction was "Oh No! That's bad, right?"
He's recently understood that he might be losing out on a business opportunity by not having a browser app, but when I mentioned PHP he said "No, a lot of our clients shops are MS only, so it has to be ASP or Dot Net. They won't allow us to run PHP on their machines anyway" And later he called back to say that he had mentioned PHP to someone, and they told him it was ok for small hobby sites, but couldn't scale to large sites and wasn't secure. Finally, he thinks that open source means we have to give away our intellectual property (source code). I'm trying to steer him towards XAMP in the future ( in addition to our current VFP software), because the Linux market for our product appears to be completely untapped, and I think the write-once deploy-many cross platform nature of Python would be a huge money maker. But I have a lot of 'splaining to do, first. I will be Googling my own homework, but I thought maybe others may have had this similar situation, and had standard links they might point their clients too. I did look at Cathedrial and Bazaar, btw, but way more techie than I'm looking for. Thanks! -- Vince Teachout Caracal Software www.caracal.net 518-733-9411 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
