So Long, SuSE, We Hardly Knew Ye!

[Ben Duncan]

It ain't necessarily the  MULTIMEDIA crowd that will get the brunt
of this load carried. It's the "bidness" users. What they use
at the office, they will use at home.

Where's out apps? Where's our useful tools?

Heck, I got one client that has about 20 desktops and
not a WINDOWS box in sight (all LINUX / Slack / OpenOffice based).
But I still catch HELL because OO has no calendar or such nice
little macros'. And don't' tell me "write it yourself", 'cause
have you ever looked at doing such a thing in OO's script?
Awful, just pure damn awful. I would rather write it in COBOL
then be forced to use OO's script language.

Until we (the Linux community) can come up with such things that
foster the business end use and make it easy for them, we
are swimming against the tide.

When asked a few days ago about my involvement in
Appgen being "the Chicken or Pig" for breakfast. Well in LINUX,
I -are- the pig !!!

Hence my work, when not trying to make a living, in writing some
sort of "BUSINESS" application framework.

More of my 2 cents ...

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 20:45 -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 

<SNIP>
> 10.) Make multimedia creation capacities equal to or greater than
> Apple's. You might have to scout out these people on SourceForge, KDE or
> Freshmeat and hire them. If those people aren't coming to you in droves,
> you are closer to the question to the answer you already have. Namely,
> "We are not winning the hearts and minds of the average user." 
> 
> You got that for free, in Open Source Fashion. If this isn't passed up
> to you, therein lies one of your problems. Ric
> 

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Ben Duncan   - Business Network Solutions, Inc. 336 Elton Road  Jackson MS, 39212
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