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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software
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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
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> Marin David Condic wrote:
> >   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.
>
> Amen!
>
Hazah!