[pianotech] [OT] Stuff Which Should Really Be on PTG-L

[Mark Purney]

Duaine,

I'm confused - I've used half of the open source programs you listed, 
but I'm not sure what any of those single-user desktop applications have 
to do with the technology that must run on the server to act as the 
digital backbone of an organization like PTG.

I realize there are also inexpensive or open source scripts and 
server-side database offerings available to someone who can figure out 
how to make use of them. But in order to combine them all together into 
something useful for our purposes would require hiring a skilled 
programmer full time to implement and maintain, and then we'd be 
dependent not only on a number of different software companies, but also 
on the expertise of someone who could vanish the moment another 
organization offers that person a higher salary.

Sorry if I'm missing your point.



On 7/5/2011 11:04 AM, Duaine Hechler wrote:
> Mark,
>
> That is all well and good - BUT - there are less expensive and dare I 
> say even - FREE - alternatives to be considered.
>
> The Open Source movement is very popular and aggressive.
>
> Pardon my French, but you can find damn near any anything from the 
> Open Source movement to fit almost anything for FREE.
>
> You just have to do some research, look for it - AND - get over the 
> fact that it has to run on "Windows".
>
> FREE Case in points:
> Open Office (MS Office alternative), Firefox (Internet Explorer 
> alternative), Thunderbird (MS Outlook alternative), VLC (MS Media 
> Player alternative), Quasar (Business Accounting), and many, many 
> more. Also, like eGroupware.
>
> The last time I looked - over 80% of the web servers - world wide - 
> are running Linux.
>
> My take,
> Duaine