Thanks Lynn This is the sort of feed-back I need to help in the planing. I intend to use Source Forge for the distribution. I expect that the private companies that presently develop this software will be the only ones that download it. I hope that they will contribute and not just steal ideas. I also expect that the huge companies which use this stuff will be told that open-source can't be any good but it will be an interesting experiment. For me, at most, I hope to get some consulting work in my industry so I will be compensated. I also hope that it will drive some interest from the present (almost all microsoft server stuff) software to Valentina and RunRev.
We certainly have an advantage as the expensive stuff produced in house is truly terrible. It takes a team of three people to produce manifests over about four days while the RunRev/Valentina project can handle the same load with only one person in one day. There are also several programs released for anyone to use by U.S. Customs and others. Lately they are written using info-path and produce XML that is sent to the gov't databases with SOAP calls. The Info-path stuff is really really bad-- only a step up from filing out paper forms. Bill _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
