RE: Differences between KnowNow commercial and mod-pubsub

Yeah, I did mean to say that.  Thanks, Joyce.

I think I'll add this to my Wiki page so I can cut-n-paste it
whenever anyone asks me this question again.  :)

   http://www.mod-pubsub.org/moinmoin/AdamRifkin

   Adam


-----Original Message-----
From: Joyce Park [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 3:42 PM
To: Adam Rifkin; Jens Alfke
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Differences between KnowNow commercial and mod-pubsub

Jens,

What Adam actually meant to say is:

I am the co-founder of KnowNow, Inc., and one of only two Mod-pubsub developers
who is still employed by that entity.  Due to the conditions of my continued
employment, there are things I can't/must say and do in public -- even in
inappropriate settings like the mod-pubsub mailing list.

KnowNow, Inc. realizes revenue by selling software to customers with enterprise
needs.  These needs are not necessarily technical in nature -- but rather may
have to do with perceived or theoretical increases in scalability, performance,
ease of integration, etc..  Design decisions affecting KnowNow products may
have been made for a host of commercial and personal reasons having little to
do with the technical needs of most users.  In any case, it may be in KnowNow's
commercial interest to sell more servers and ancillary goods and services.

Therefore, anything that I -- Adam Rifkin -- say about KnowNow on the
mod-pubsub mailing list should be filtered through your knowledge of these
pertinent facts.  Nothing anyone else says on this mailing list should be
construed as constituting an endorsement or critique of any commercial product.

  Yours truly,

  Adam Rifkin's personal editor


--- Adam Rifkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Suggestion heard, loud and clear.  (By the way, welcome!)
> 
> I think it's fair to say KnowNow is the industrial-strength commercial
> implementation; for it you can buy support, clustering, failover,
> higher-performance, and an Excel connector, plus it has documentation
> (which, as we've noted many times, we're lacking), decent installers,
> and it has been tested and used by many paying customers.
> 
> Most of KnowNow's customers do buy it for commercial line-of-business
> applications, whereas mod-pubsub does tend to appeal more to the web
> architects and developers of things like email and news apps.
> 
> Note that all of the mod-pubsub client libraries work with the commercial
> server as connectors, so if you ever need to switch over, migration
> is fairly straightforward.



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