Re: OGo/Plone integration

Helge,

On Thursday 03 June 2004 23:17, Helge Hess wrote:
> Well, just my absolutely biased opinion, but this is IMHO the major
> problem with phpGroupware and the advantage of OGo. OGo being developed
> as a proprietary software by a small team is very consistent from a
> functional point of view.

i see your point about consistency and overall software quality, but then i 
somehow miss what is the advantage for skyrix to maintain the ogo as an open 
source project!

from what i understood following the last 4 months of mailing-list traffic, 
skyrix is basically paying for 99% of ogo development, it pays for most of 
the basic user-support and partially pays for the web infrastructure 
(bandwith, hardware, and content).

it definitely looks like skyrix gets a sizable "ogo costs" entry in the yearly 
balance.

OTOH from the business point of view, the commonly advocated reasons for going 
open source with a proprietary project are:
- distribute the development effort (going from the cathedral to the bazar)
- distribute the beta-testing effort
- distribute the marketing and communication effort (building a strong user 
community)

ogo seems very successfull in the last two items, and i certainly believe that 
skyrix can measure significant cost savings and income increase.

however i'm surprised about the fact that you seem to imply that skyrix is not 
interested in the distributed development model which appear to imply even 
more significant cost savings.

i don't intend, in no way, to teach you _your_ business model ;-). i'm just 
curious about the fact that skyrix is pushing a really exciting open source 
project without considering interesting what is claimed to be the first 
advantage of the open source development model (and, at least in the case of 
the linux kernel it actually _is_ a really big advantage).

cheers,
alessandro
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