[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > There's a saying that I've heard about SAP, "We don't change SAP to suit > your business, you change your business to suit SAP."
This is actually the basic, fundamental principal between anything which is "made to specification" and that which is "manufactured", face it. The age if mass production created an audience that traded off "true service" for "lower price", but at a cost of not having exactly what you wanted. The new economics of free software means that you could still accept this as the end result, but you now have the choice of taking that software that is produced "in general", and having it changed to fit your specific need. Some companies (I will not say which one in particular, but their name rhymes with "Psychoboft") will tell you their software packages lead you to a set of "best practices" for your company, and that is why you have to rip your company apart and put it back together again to use their software. It is provable that proprietary software is breaking under the load, and has been doing so since before 1997.....I am wondering when some company is going to shout "Enron" and take the CEOs of those companies to court for fraud. md -- Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association, USENIX Association (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark on a worldwide basis (R)UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other countries. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss