mardi 2 septembre 2003

Zope and Plone Power Brazil Congratulations to Luciano Ramalho for pushing Zope and Plone up near the top of public administration in Brazil. What a wonderful success! And richly deserved, as Hyperlogica is one of the earliest leaders in world of Zope. My favorite part of story: development was "smooth and very rapid". 9:23:55 AM   comment []

Office 2003: The "Windows" of Opportunity David Coursey at ZDNet AnchorDesk writes a story that analyzes the positioning of the upcoming Office 2003, the well-worn breadwinner for Redmond. He makes a good case for points I've been rather obnoxiously repeating for the last half-year: Microsoft will position Office 2003 as "collaboration" and "web information". This will require massive upgrades of clients and also new server products, because improving earnings is the whole point of the exercise. Microsoft will market the bejeebus out of collaboration, to convince the market that it needs this. First, thank you Microsoft. This last point is a window of opportunity. What if you could get some of that value, with less of the cost? What if there was an open source product, with the business ecosystem to support it, that gave you collaboration but let you keep Office 2000? Alas, it's unlikey to happen, because open source people think integration with Word means "switch to OpenOffice, l00zer". Somewhere out there might be lurking that rare intersection of Office development experience, open source religion, and business accumen to pull of such an endeavor. As someone that's been now to four open source content management events, I can tell you that said intersection is rare indeed. It's too bad. If we could keep an open mind and evaluate the strengths of Office, make informed plans, and grab the business opportunity that's being presented, we could help ourselves and the market at the same time. 9:07:50 AM   comment []