From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,3cd3b8571c28b75f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-21 05:46:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Stephane Richard" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3F44BC65.4020203@noplace.com> Subject: Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:46:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.149.79.145 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1061469993 141.149.79.145 (Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:46:33 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:46:33 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41759 Date: 2003-08-21T12:46:33+00:00 List-Id: Food for Though indeed. :-)....he's not wrong...as in orientation wise....there's plenty of people working on the servers/datbases/programming languages etc etc....there's OpenOffice which is a good start for the business world....but as far as payroll, inventory control, acounting, receivables etc etc...aint much done in those fields as far as open source goes.... -- St�phane Richard Senior Software and Technology Supervisor http://www.totalweb-inc.com For all your hosting and related needs "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:3F44BC65.4020203@noplace.com... > Someone pointed me at the foloowing article: > > http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html?tag=lh > > Its an interesting conversation with the CEO of Ernie Ball - the guitar > string manufacturer. Apparently they totally dumped Micro$oft in favor > of open source software after getting sued for license infringements. > > The interesting part for Ada is that the CEO is identifying some major > holes in the "Open Source" world that he thinks need to be filled. It > would be wise to listen to a successful business customer who might pick > up on something written in Ada and start using it if it were available... > > From the article: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > You've pretty much gotten by with off-the-shelf software. Was it tough > to find everything you needed in the open-source world? > Yeah, there are some things that are tough to find, like payroll > software. We found something, and it works well. But the developers need > to start writing the real-world applications people need to run a > business...engineering, art and design tools, that kind of > stuff...They're all trying to build servers that already exist and do a > whole bunch of stuff that's already out there...I think there's a lot of > room to not just create an alternative to Microsoft but really take the > next step and do something new. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > MDC > -- > ====================================================================== > Marin David Condic > I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ > My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ > > Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g > > "In general the art of government consists in taking as > much money as possible from one class of citizens to give > to the other." > > -- Voltaire > ====================================================================== >