On 4/22/07, Vince Teachout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
On the economics of running your applications on Open Source? Perens has a high-level view: http://perens.com/Articles/Economic.html The Harvard Business School has a 55-page PDF written way back in 2000: http://www.people.hbs.edu/jlerner/simple.pdf but those are both too high-minded for what you're looking for, I think. > 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. Nonsense. Some of the biggest sites in the world run on PHP. > Finally, he thinks that open source means we have to give away our > intellectual property (source code). Another common misconception. > 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. I think you have your work cut out for you. I am not convinced of WAMP, as I have very limited experience with Apache on Windows. If you have to buy the Windows server license anyway, what's the difference between IIS and Apache, well, besides security? I am less comfortable running *anything* on Windows, since exploits are so much more common on the platform. A workstation can be replaced if it goes hinky, but what about the server? I'd prefer to have a headless Linux box running the show than a Windows server someone decides to use as a spare internet browsing machine. I just don't see the compelling story for Windows on servers. > 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! Googling "Business Case for Open Source" yields some good hits, too: http://www.opensource.org/advocacy/case_for_business.php -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com 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.
