I like this idea... we do need a strategy.
On Mar 15, 10:59 pm, Francisco Gama <[email protected]> wrote:
> ok, that may be true but success with both communities doesn't have to
> be exclusive. In fact, I consider much easier and healthier to start
> as open source and get feeded by the open source community since the
> "enterprise framework" will only hit hard the enterprises when there
> are many and strong successful case studies to show. For the so
> intended "mature" companies, that's really important not to mention
> the direct contributions that a larger open source community can
> provide in the project development.
>
> Idea:
> - associate the domain web2py.org to the Open Source community with a
> layout that gives more relevance to the development resources, WiKi
> for documentation, ... this website would have the latest version of
> web2py.
>
> - associate the domain web2py.com to Companies with a shiny layout
> that gives more relevance to Support, Background (case studies),
> features overview, links for books, and possibly licensing schemes for
> support. this website would have the second latest version of web2py
> (to improve testing and code maturity).
>
> best regards
>
> On Mar 16, 3:33 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > web2py has about 10% of the market of Django which has 10% of the
> > market of Rails which has about 10% of the market of PHP, which has
> > 10% of the market of Java and ASP.
>
> > I think we should go after Java and ASP users and play as nicely as we
> > can to Django and Rails users.
>
> > Massimo
>
> > On Mar 15, 9:49 pm, Francisco Gama <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I understand Marco and he is quite right. Open source and enterprise
> > > communities don't play well together for very large majority of times.
> > > The image rejected by one is loved by the other and vv. That doesn't
> > > change.
> > > A good idea (not new, not mine) is to stamp both images to the same
> > > product.
> > > Projects that have done it very well:
> > > Qt, MySQL, redhat,...
>
> > > I find this a good idea.
>
> > > On Mar 16, 2:28 am, weheh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > The fact that web2py scales to enterprise-wide apps is a huge selling
> > > > point to the professional community. It immediately caught my
> > > > attention because I wanted to be sure the system was able to be used
> > > > in industrial-strength applications.
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