Re: Minivend vs Others Options

[Jason Korkin <jkorkin@korksoft.com>]

George,
	Actually you'd be quite surprised... many large companies often PREFER
to go with large companies because there is a large SUPPORT BACKBONE --
however, many of these such companies also routinely use GNU type
programs on a day to day basis (Polariod for instance uses MV on an
internal partners program type site that we did for them...) other
companies like Cabletron Systems use Linux, PERL, MySQL routinely since
they are FREE, and generally speaking do NOT require such technical
support... 

	What is generally boils down to is who is the specific group can use
the Middleware / OS / software properly, and who is going to stay around
to maintain it.  When I used to work at another large company on a
contract, I was put in place to write a serries of PERL scripts to
maintain much of one of their user systems, when I left however, they
had to bring someone else in, since no one in the company knew how to
program in PERL...

	Well, thats just my .02 cents... :-) Happy 4th to you all, I just got
back from camping in the back-woods of New Hampshire -- if you ever have
a chance, come up and visit! :-)

	Jason Korkin.


George Knerr wrote:
> 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.
> 

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