As an employee of a company with hundreds of millions in revenue that is
building upon e-smith as a core component of its future plans, and as the
person who is the principle technical liason e-smith/Mitel, and as a person
who has a lot riding on VME Server V5 both at my day job and what is soon to
be my evening job, all I can say is this:
Get a grip! (Everyone, but especially the Kens out there.)
Look, I wanted to say this earlier but didn't want to disclose anything, but
now that Kirrily has let the cat out of the bag I'll take a whack at it. She
said:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirrily Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 12:38 PM
>
> [clip, clip, clip]
>
> The SME Server V5 was well into development long before the Mitel
> acquisition, and in fact the whole package of the open platform as a
> foundation for a range of add-ons was what they found attractive.
There appears to be some feeling that SME Server V5 is some evil
manifestation of the wicked Mitel suits. BUNK! Do you think e-smith evolved
from 4.1.2 to SME5 just since the acquisition? What planet are you guys
from? Development of this magnitude takes MANY MONTHS not a few weeks. I'm
fairly confident that if the Mitel acquisition had not happened that we
would be seeing e-smith 5.0 in pretty much the same form at pretty much the
same price point, just without the name change. In fact, I'm not just fairly
confident, I'm VERY confident.
>From my perspective, looking at a future that involves the rollout of
thousands of e-smith/Mitel systems over the next couple of years (my day
job), about the ONLY thing that has changed is the name. (Oh, there is the
much more attractive, if less informative, home page! Was that hand coded,
or done with a nuke-ish package?) There is one other significant change --
the people formerly known as e-smith now have the resources, financial and
technical and marketing, to really start growing their product. I for one
don't consider that to be a bad thing.
Don't like it, you say? Feeling "sold out" to the money-grubbing
corporations? Pissed off that someone might actually make some money off of
open source? Well, there are other options. Who's twisting your arm to hang
out here and bitch? Or is it that you, as the old cigarette ads used to say,
"would rather fight than switch"?
Scott
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