Hoping you would reply :) On 21 Nov 2005, at 18:00, Andre Garzia wrote:
That's what happens when goverment decides to migrate itself to linux without thinking that in the Real world, people might need proprietary platforms, the zealots excuse is: "if we all move, we'll create momentum to F/OSS so that better apps will be created."
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Usually after this question, they start barking at me for being a "capitalist bastard"
Yep - was not so bad in Munich - but still... in the project here, we inherited Linux based Terminal Servers (Novel) - great for watching video and tv / media work??? One of the reasons why I would hesitate to embrace the "thin client" ideal of Dans is due to this experience - we've now replaced these with mini-macs - almost no difference in price.
However again this is not "all or nothing" - I can see reintroducing the terminal server approach later - and have made web services and AJAX / Rails type frameworks a key part of the online project. This is firmly an open source and an open content project - and we use Revolution.
Now, why linux is important for me and why I wanted RunRev to support it? There's another goverment project called PC Conectado, which is aimed in building cheap computers running linux for the masses. There will be two kinds of computers, the really cheap ones that will run linux, and the more expensive ones that might run windows, Zeta, whatever. I am talking about millions of computers, not thousands, millions. One contract with this goverment for bundling your software in the machine and boom, millions of users... That project is a good idea, the bad part is that some spoiled brats in the goverment are ruining it.
This is exactly why some good marketing support for an open source strategy would be so effective in getting Revolution used in some seriously large initiatives. We all now how easy it is for us to deliver quality applications (even on Linux save for the video support), and outdo anything that traditional open source developers can create in the same time frame by a factor of 3 or 4.
But to do that we need to convince the "zealots" and "spoiled brats in the government" - which is not that hard - they like cool toys that can deliver as much as the next person. Missing is the business strategy and the marketing.
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