On Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2008, Sergey Chernyshev wrote: > Hmm. This all sounds pretty bad from a community member perspective, I hope > you guys will clarify all this because SMW+ is a smart move for Ontoprise's > marketing team, but clearly gives wrong impression, especially if split is > a possibility. I believe it'll be better if Ontoprise piggybacked on > relationship with SMW in less intrusive way. > > Please don't get me wrong, I do appreciate all the help SMW got from > collaboration and do not want to diminish the value it brought to 1.0 > release, more over, not being a significant contributor to SMW project, I > don't feel very good about writing this email at all and it's much more up > to Markus and Denny to handle, but being an active promoter of SMW among > New York Semantic Web Community
(which we surely appreciate a lot!) > , I'd prefer that this effort will not get > harmed by ambiguous naming. > > More over, I don't think the harm can be done only to SMW, but to Halo as > well if community will (for good reason) start to emphasize distinction > between SMW and SMW+ therefore unwillingly giving unfair "villan" image to > Halo team and Ontoprise. > > I think both sides can benefit from Ontoprise promoting a bundled solution > and with SMW bundled as is. I feel that geeky image of raw SMW is enough > for Ontoprise to augment it with Halo, marketing and support packages to > create added value for enterprise customers to pay for. > > Hope my email will give correct and positive impression in this delicate > situation. Thanks for your opinion. As I said, there will soon be a meeting to establish plans for future cooperations. I will announce definite results on the lists. Best regards, Markus > > Thank you, > > Sergey -- Markus Krötzsch Semantic MediaWiki http://semantic-mediawiki.org http://korrekt.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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