You know, I'd actually be in favour of this workshop if it showed how Oracle can be integrated with open source geospatial applications (web mapping, etc). This is the kind of thing that many organisations need to gradually integrate open source into their stacks.
As it stands, it shows how to integrate a free beer proprietary application with an expensive-beer application, and I am personally not in favour of it. This is a "Free and Open Source" conference not a "Free or Open Source" conference. Jason -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:23 To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] "Free" Attendees are not just developers of free software, there are lots of people just looking to solve problems in a low-cost way. Some of those low cost solutions are free, others are free. My guess is that the proposed workshop would be heavily attended. Allan Doyle wrote: > There are plenty of places Oracle can demo or hold a workshop. There > are not so many places developers of Free and Open Source Software can > do the same. > > Let the non-free companies come and learn about FOSS. I'm not sure we > have to teach the FOSS developers about non-free software. -- Paul Ramsey Refractions Research http://www.refractions.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 250-383-3022 Cell: 250-885-0632 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
