Re: How great is the effort to use gnue in a start up company

Am Samstag, 3. März 2007 12:05 schrieb Reinhard Mueller:
> Hi, Thilo!
>
> Am Samstag, den 03.03.2007, 00:12 +0100 schrieb Thilo Riessner:
> > So, is gnue far enough, to implement these demands, and  stable enough
> > for a production system?
>
> Yes
>
> > 
> > Which type of gnue implementation would you choose (2 tier or 3 tier)?
> > I would prefer the 3 tier type with the application server (it sounds
> > really powerfull), but on the project website I read (in the mini FAQ
> > if I remember right) that 3 tier is not jet stable enough for
> > production systems.
>
> We use 3 tier in production and consider it stable enough.
>

I like to hear this. You should update the miniFAQ then.

> Personally I would recommend to use appserver, but then again, I'm
> biased, as I wrote parts of it :-)
>
> > If we decide to use gnue, how long would it take for an experienced
> > access guy (the one I mentioned in the beginning) to learn gnue and
> > implement the actual demands I listed above?
>
> That's hard to tell. Depends on whether you do some kind of special
> education, or he tries to find out everything via trial and error.
> Documentation is not exactly one of the strengths of GNUe, and while we
> are working on a tutorial-like doc, we're not quite there yet.
>
> > On the website there are packages described, which would cover a great
> > part of the work to be done, but I can't find any download location.
> > Are these descriptions just design suggestions, or are there at least
> > some first implementations we could use as a basis to adapt to our
> > needs?
>
> These packages are all more or less in planning state, there's not much
> implemented yet.
>
> I would be curious in which part of Germany you live: I might be able to
> offer you some professional services on GNUe if you are interested.
>

In northern Bavaria. How can we get into contact outside this list for further 
discussions on that?

> Thanks,
> Reinhard