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, 200

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 thr

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 "c

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

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 every

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 a