Re: [discussion] The future of SME Server

2013-04-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Daniel Rose wrote: > > Someone mentioned ClearOS, so now I'm aware that it's a competitor in the > same market space, and I'd never heard of it before this discussion. I had > a look, it's very pretty. Is it as good in practical terms? If someone > objective would

Re: [discussion] The future of SME Server

2013-04-10 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Of course, a lot of the especially impressive stuff can all be done with > add-ons like simpleinvoices and vTiger and osticket and asterix any one of > hundreds of others -- but now they are paying per hour for me to setup and > configure all this stuff. It would be pretty cool if I could instal

Re: [discussion] The future of SME Server

2013-04-10 Thread Daniel Rose
On 06/04/13 23:00, Chris Pelon wrote: That's my point, if there was a strong community and clear marketing message SME could be positioned better to the small business owner. Cultures differ from place to place, buy my experience is that small business owners don't care a lot what OS their sys

Re: [discussion] The future of SME Server

2013-04-10 Thread Daniel Rose
On 06/04/13 06:43, Chris Pelon wrote: Hi All I run a small business IT services company in the US and we have just started to play with the SME 8 software. So far it seems like a very nice project, and it would be only natural for us to help improve it. I run a small business IT services comp

Re: [discussion] The future of SME Server

2013-04-06 Thread Chris Pelon
Thanks for your feedback Dan! I am encourage by the activity I see in the community. see my comments to your response below. On Apr 6, 2013, at 12:46 AM, "Daniel Rose" wrote: > On 06/04/13 06:43, Chris Pelon wrote: >> Hi All >> >> I run a small business IT services company in the US and we h

Re: [discussion] The future of SME Server

2013-04-06 Thread John Crisp
On 06/04/13 06:45, Daniel Rose wrote: > > The core unofficial business model (IMHO) is that you-and-I provide paid > commercial support to the end businesses with back-end donations > (tithes? Whatever you like really) to the paypal account mentioned in > other posts. > > My problem is that I'm

Re: [discussion] The future of SME Server

2013-04-05 Thread Daniel Rose
On 06/04/13 06:43, Chris Pelon wrote: Hi All I run a small business IT services company in the US and we have just started to play with the SME 8 software. So far it seems like a very nice project, and it would be only natural for us to help improve it. I run a small business IT services comp

Re: [discussion] The future of SME Server

2013-04-05 Thread John Crisp
Hi ! On 05/04/13 21:43, Chris Pelon wrote: > Hi All > > I run a small business IT services company in the US and we have just started > to play with the SME 8 software. So far it seems like a very nice project, > and it would be only natural for us to help improve it. > Excellent news :-) >

Re: [discussion] The future of SME Server

2013-04-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Chris Pelon wrote: > In my opinion, the primary competitor to SME is Microsoft Windows Small > Business Server. Microsoft has announced that they will be discontinuing > SBS as a product. This will create a great opportunity for SME as many small > businesses will

[discussion] The future of SME Server

2013-04-05 Thread Chris Pelon
Hi All I run a small business IT services company in the US and we have just started to play with the SME 8 software. So far it seems like a very nice project, and it would be only natural for us to help improve it. I just read John's future of SME server post and I am intrigued. I have a few