Congrats to the 5, but it was amazing to see such a depth of good ideas and people to run with them. The community is certainly building up some strength. Great to see.
Cheers, Mick On Jan 9, 4:59 pm, drllau <drlawrence...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Samba is the Linux filesharing. It's sold by the likes of IBM > >and HP and they make *a lot* of money from it. Even the > >Taiwanese make more money from Samba with network- > >attached-storage than we do. Explain that... > > I'm familiar with Andrew and his mob. Technically they legally > reversed engineered the SMB protocol (protocol snooping) that > Microsoft developed early on for sharing printers and mounted disks on > networks. Various companies prefer dealing with an independent firm > than with a market gorilla. As an open-source project there are > constraints on how much the service can be productised (not to mention > inherent security limitation). > > I've explained open source to a number of IT forums, it can seen more > as a defrensive measure and if all they charge for is consulting and > service, then business dynamics is more along the lines of a small > business rather than frozen IP. > > Mincom is probably a better example of enterprise software > Lawrence -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/351e183e1303508d?hl=en%3Fhl%3Den No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
