Hi John,

That's good news (that an open source stack is working out commercially for you).

Are you doing cloud apps? That's a market I can readily see working with open source tooling. If not, what kinds of apps are you finding acceptance for built on an open source stack?

thanks,

Hank

>>I predicted 11 years ago to my now employer that Linux would dominate the corporate market in 5 to 7 years. Boy was I wrong! While it is used where there are a bunch of geeks to keep it working (Facebook, Google, NOAA, Twitter). But those aren't our customers: they are folks with a small IT department, for the most part; and even when they have a big IT department, there are so many moving parts in what we do (retail inventory management, which means lots of users, barcode scanners, ticket printers for stock, etc.) that they'd often rather have them host with us. In this world, Microsoft is still top dog.
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>You were just ahead of everyone else. Of course when Tim makes statements they sort of come true. Tim named web 2.0 and told the world that the phone would be the new computer and to watch Apple. When I worked for him he had the first windows web server (this was of course before IIS). He also had one of the first websites. My point is - what Tim tells the world has many following. And reading between the lines I think Tim is saying MS is dying faster than most of us realize.
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>Like you I have moved away from VFP but unlike you I also moved away from MS. I believe if I use products that are open it will benefit my customers and me in the long run. So far the move has proven a good one. So in a small way Tim was talking about me.
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