Gold, Reading between the lines. Erick Raymond is the Minister of Properganda for the Open Source (Linux) movement. Eric was interviewed by Amazon.com. So he did not mention corl or applix. What he did say is.
Amazon.com: Your audience has considerably broadened since the original publication of the essay (now that you are meeting with CEOs, CTOs, and CFOs). Are there any Fortune 500 companies stepping up and becoming evangelists for the open-source movement? What type of companies, say within the next five years, do you think will make the greatest strides toward implementing open-source software alternatives?
Raymond: Open-source evangelism from Fortune 500 companies is happening big-time--.....
I expect the companies to tip next will be the ones that have the highest costs of failure associated with software outages.....
badly, exposing them to large and unnecessary business risks starting with the obvious cost of downtime and finishing
with the unobvious but much greater problem of being at the wrong end of a monopoly lock-in.
What's happening now is that big outfits like Reliance and Burlington Coat Factory in the U.S. are waking up to this.
Burlington Coat Factory.... Redhat and Applix given Linux Jounal 1999 Solution of the year.
What else did Eric say?????
Amazon.com: You state on your home page at Tuxedo.org that, "The Red Hat folks have an enlightened policy about
sending free copies to Linux contributors, and I like their product, so I'm generally running their latest version." What are your feelings about the other distributions of Linux such as Debian, SuSE, Mandrake, etc.? How do these other distributions rate? Do you believe that Red Hat will ultimately be the best choice for Linux service?
Raymond: I'm sure Red Hat will be knocked off its perch someday; markets are like that. I'm completely cool with the other distributions
(well, except for being mildly annoyed with the Debian crowd for clinging to an incompatible installable-package system).
Corl is based on Debian... incompatible installable-package system....
In several discusions I've had with Linux users, the guess is that Corl has it's own distribution because it's Wine and other strategic implementation focus require that kind of control to assure that applications install and work correctly. Is corl looking for a kind unobvious of monopoly lock-in????
---------------- full interview.
amazon.com
Oh yeah at my watman.com I also mentioned bluetooth as a wireless technology. I'm still investigating companies positioned to benefit. duhhh....
Today's news.
biz.yahoo.com
Applix iEnterprise Supports Wireless Application Protocol -WAP- for its iCRM Suite of e-Business Solutions
Tom Watson tosiwmee.
PS Eric Raymond has called for a boycott of Amazon to protest their enforcement of their 1click software patent. I just suggest you use Amazon to find the book you want and then go to buy.com and pay a lot less. But Amazon has good stuff to find what you want and buy.com has a price that is usually better than free shipping. |
