Re: Corporate sponsorships (a la Plone/Zope/CA)

Hi Helge!

> I talked with several people at Apple. They do no
> OpenSource sponsoring 
> (and I'm not aware of any Apple sponsored project
> [Apple projects like 
> Darwin do not count]).

Hopefully, that might change in the near future, since
the majority of the competition is getting FOSS
friendly (Sun, Novell, CA, etc.)  They might be able
to sell more X-Serves if they had an exchange killer
pre-loaded on it.  Maybe those Apple folks need to
subscribe to the Porting mailing list, or keep an eye
on the Porting page.  With that BIG Munich switch to
Linux, Apple might see this as a chance to revisit
customers who used to have Macs before PC's and MS
proliferated.

> They don't. The only thing they offered is to lend a
> machine for a 
> month ...

I'd take them up on that when it comes close to
releasing a stable version of the OS-X OGo.  Might
speed up the builds for beta testing.

> If we would provide a ready to run solution for
> MacOSX, I think there 
> are good chances that Apple might include it in
> MacOSX server or at 
> least push news about OGo.
> But getting the OSX port into the same state like
> the Linux port is 
> quite a while to go.

One would think that it would be to their benefit to
help out with something.  I guess they don't know a
good thing when the see it... or their iPods are
turned up to loud, and they can't think straight!  ;-)

> IMHO it would be more interesting to talk with a
> Linux oriented company 
> like RedHat (or CA? / Sun?) which is in the server
> business and has no 
> groupware server. If someone has connections, I
> don't ;-)

The only people I would know are in Ottawa, Canada...
and I'm not sure if they survived "downsizing".  You
could try pinging the local Sun sales office in
Germany, and seeing if they can escalate it to the
right people.  It would be closer to home for ya
there!

Make lots of noise at LinuxTag!

/Mike

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