Re: Long term Debian growth

1998-10-03 Thread Tom
Sam, You should post your questions to this list. There are many highly knowledgeable and skilled people here who will help you. Just don't forget to do some of your own work. Reading documentation etc. You also should consider upgrading to Debian 2.0. There is also a list of consultant

RE: Long term Debian growth

1998-10-03 Thread Samuel Hahn
Tom -- I am not a small business owner, but I do run a site for my family non-profit (www.StoneSpring.org), and would like to host this on a Debian machine. It's currently on an ISP (Verio) site. I am new to Debian, having done not much since installing 1.3 on an Intel server last November and

Re: Long term Debian growth

1998-10-02 Thread john
Tom writes: > 1. Debian could maintain a list of consultants and technical workers who > can and will support commercial Debian sites. (Perhaps at a discount.) That already exists. > 2. An off the shelf business development kit... > ... > Any opinions? Sure. Start a business, implement your id

Long term Debian growth

1998-10-02 Thread Tom
I am thinking that Debian should consider taking some steps to increase its commercial presence by becoming more attractive to small entrepreneurial business owners with low to moderate technical skills. The reasons for this is to provide an increased source of funding for Debian expansion. Lets