Re: Open source WO (was: Apple, Microsoft, Java and the Web?)

On Aug 24, 2006, at 6:20 AM, Bruce Fancher wrote:

> But do you think I'm going to suggest that
> we use a product that's owned by Apple and has no marketing behind it
> whatsoever?  Uh uh.

Silent market is NOT equal to no market! This is a mistake that shows  
up again and again and again.

I am writing this while entering the test phase of the largest for  
the last 20 years dutch inter-bank project, written by my company for  
a clearing house. This application is 80% WO and 20% Cocoa (yes you  
read correctly). None of the banks ever had concern with either WO or  
Apple (some of these banks are top 10 world finance institutions).

And this project is no exception. I know of several new & hot WO  
based projects that any BuzzWord Consulting company would like to add  
to their portfolio. But as usual NDAs are more of a problem then  
Apple's marketing....

Just my €0.00

Georg Tuparev
Tuparev Technologies
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