Re: Minivend vs Others Options

["George Knerr" <gknerr@webalution.net>]

Birgitt,

Theses companies, like the deep pockets that want to finance the site I am
proposing, want big design companies and big name brands like Oracle.  It is
part prestige part common sense.  Oracle presents itself as a competent
company as I'm sure they are.  There is no marketing front for GNU programs
like Minivend and MySQL.  So other than people such as ourselves, those that
foot the bill will be more comfortable spending money on known brand names.
I guess it is a business decision on their part not to report the back end
engines that drive those un-named big web sites.  This can easily be seen as
a betrayal to the GNU community, but those programs may not have gotten used
at all otherwise.  Of course there may be a good reason, i.e. some people
don't want others to know how they designed things for competition sake.

George Knerr
gknerr@webalution.net


----- Original Message -----
From: Birgitt Funk <birgitt@minivend.com>
To: Minivend Users <minivend-users@minivend.com>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: Minivend vs Others Options


> ******    message to minivend-users from Birgitt Funk
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> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Raj Goel wrote:
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> > ******    message to minivend-users from Raj Goel
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> > On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Minivend wrote:
> >
> > > ******    message to minivend-users from "Minivend" <mvend@fizbin.com>
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> > >
> > > >  Our technology is in use at various places, including a few large
> > > > sites.
> > >
> > > That's nice. Could someone actually provide URLs and specifics,
instead of
> > > the usual vague 'few large sites'.
> > >
> > > Pretty please?
> > >
> > > Harry
> >
> > Love to, but contractual obligations prevent us from doing so.
> >
> > Some companies prefer not to advertise they use MV, PERL, etc. on
> > their sites.
> >
>
> Yep, that's why it should be documented, i.e. given proof on a site
> which is under the umbrella of the documentation project of MiniVend.
>
> Would love to know with what argument those companies come up to
> justify their contracts they set up with you.
>
> On the one side they seem to love to take advantage of a no-cost,
> open source software package, apparently being happy and successfully
> running it with the help of your consultancy, and on the other side
> they should have a valid reason NOT to say/admit what they used ? I
> just don't understand that logic. Can someone help me with that, please ?
>
> Birgitt Funk
>
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