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Monday, June 17, 2002 |
Lars' new site
New Collaboraid Site Design. Michael Vonderburgh fixed me up with a new design for collaboraid.net. Still not completely done (some fonts missing and such), but it's headed in that direction. [Pind's dot-com]
I'm anxious to hear more about Collaboraid's software offerings and business model. Lars, check out Intraspect - it's a commercial product I'm integrating at a few financial services firms right now. The other companies I've heard about that have rolled it out are very happy with it, and willing to pay quite a bit for features that fit very well with the OpenACS architecture. They're biggest feature is robust email integration, which I think all knowledge management and collaborative solutions should have.
7:28:15 PM 
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LOL: Free Riders
I just found out from a Slashdot
post that in economic terms, my team were "Free Riders"... I can live
with that. :-)
2:52:34 PM
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Good Joel on Software article on why funding open source makes sense for profit-driven BigCo's.
I was recently consulted on a bid to furnish a web-enabled student
information system software to a large public school district with ~50K
students. It is a huge project, and I believe Apple, Sun and IBM were also
bidding on it. The big guys were all including their particular proprietary
stacks, and the team I was on was proposing a full open source solution.
We began the bidding with about a $100-200K cost advantage (most of that
being the edu-discounted licenses for the Oracle cluster). Commoditizing
the DB2/Oracle piece and Sun hardware means that the amount of services and
customization our team could offer goes up a huge amount.
I guess the interesting part is that we are competing with companies that
Joel identifies as funding our competitive edge (Sun, IBM), at least
collaterally. I think that this type of interaction between small companies
(like FogDog) and open source is more nuanced. I hope he addresses that in
a future article.
2:52:32 PM
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