Re: [NF] Good overviews of Open Source?

2007-04-22 Thread Vince Teachout
Ted Roche wrote: On 4/20/07, Vince Teachout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's unclear from your post what your client is supposed to be considering. I wasn't aware just how unclear it was, until you started asking questions. I'm looking for basic What is Open Source and Why is Open Source

Re: [NF] Good overviews of Open Source?

2007-04-22 Thread William Sanders / EFG
Heya Vince - you said, He's recently understood that he might be losing out on a business opportunity by not having a browser app, hm... Curiouser and Curiouser - Did you do any staging for him with IIS, Active FoxPro Pages, and VFP ? You can also do wintel Apache, Active FoxPro Pages, and

Re: [NF] Good overviews of Open Source?

2007-04-22 Thread Leland F. Jackson, CPA
Php scales and is cross platform. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/10/15/php_scalability.html Java scales and essentially equivalent to Dot Net. The big difference between java and Dot Net is Java is a little more mature, more widely used, and run on Linux, Mac, Solaris, and about

Re: [NF] Good overviews of Open Source?

2007-04-22 Thread Ted Roche
On 4/22/07, Vince Teachout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wasn't aware just how unclear it was, until you started asking questions. I'm looking for basic What is Open Source and Why is Open Source a GOOD thing? type articles, preferably with statistics. On the economics of running your

Re: [NF] Good overviews of Open Source?

2007-04-21 Thread Ted Roche
On 4/20/07, Vince Teachout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like I might finally have a chance of getting one of my major clients to consider open source! This is a guy that is leery of anything not MS. It's unclear from your post what your client is supposed to be considering. It is

RE: [NF] Good overviews of Open Source?

2007-04-20 Thread Scott Ramey
Just get him a little Linux box with Open Office and Firefox. It's pretty decent and maybe he'll grow to appreciate it. Regards, Scott Ramey BDS Software -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vince Teachout Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007

Re: [NF] Good overviews of Open Source?

2007-04-20 Thread Vince Teachout
Scott Ramey wrote: Just get him a little Linux box with Open Office and Firefox. It's pretty decent and maybe he'll grow to appreciate it. If it were only that simple. He's not a computer user. He's the owner of a corporation, and he has a well established line of software in use