Thank you for your information Luis, but I must say that my experience the last three months with Alfresco Labs (3A, 3B and various nightly builds) was with fresh installs, and finally I downgraded configuration files from Alfresco 3 Labs to my old and loved 2.1 CE. I have some issues, but as you said, it was a 30 minutes job.
Surely I am very much more skilled in 2.1, but when I am testing and showing features to a client, I cannot get failures adding groups or users to a space because of a javascript problem, or getting regression bugs in the SOAP clients.
Note 1. You made me search in the dictionary the "Howdy" word
ops: :lol:
Note 2. This thread is going more and more interesting but… here it's 00:52 and I must wake up at 06:00!!! Tomorrow I won't be "fresco" at all.
Surely I am very much more skilled in 2.1, but when I am testing and showing features to a client, I cannot get failures adding groups or users to a space because of a javascript problem, or getting regression bugs in the SOAP clients.
Note 1. You made me search in the dictionary the "Howdy" word
ops: :lol: Note 2. This thread is going more and more interesting but… here it's 00:52 and I must wake up at 06:00!!! Tomorrow I won't be "fresco" at all.
Well, I used to use Fedora and I dumped it, I am not Linus Torvald and don't need to twinker around with operating systems or anything else. Then I used RedHat Enterprise Linux and I dumped it because I found out that I could get CentOS for free. I don't need any support, so what do I need RedHad Enterprise Linux for. Then I found Ubuntu and dumped even CentOS. I don't need a copy of something if I can have an original. I think that Ubuntu has the right Open Source model. Take the whole thing for free and if you need support then buy it, if not, then no need to. The Ubuntu model will succeed, the other I am not so sure about.
What do you say, my friends?
I think I'd say that the Ubuntu model has so far only worked when a billionaire is willing to pump tens of millions of dollars into propping up the business each year. I'm glad that you have bought into this system (I know Mark S. and he's trying very hard to find a sustainable model that doesn't depend on the bits, and I'm rooting for him to succeed), but you seem to want a model that has proved to fail in every case except when someone with a lot of cash can subsidize a failed business model.
That's not us, unfortunately, and you've managed to find the only commercial project that can subsist that way.
Wow, someone answered my post. I can't believe it. Thank you, thank you sooooo much, I am sooooo happy.
Listen, my dear friends, I understand your situation. You need to make money, just like I need to make money too, and just like you I am a poor guy too. Now, what do we poor guys do? Let's be clever, very clever. Let us create two versions of a product, one version which works, we sell for money and the other version which is total nonsense, we give away for free, call it OpenSource and let stupid people test it and report bugs for free. This way, we don't need to hire beta testers and can reduce our quality assurance staff and save money. And besides, it is OpenSource, the buzzword in the software industry of today, so everyone will want it. Great idea.
Hmmmm, that surely is a great idea, but is it a good idea? Will it create a happy and large community? Will it make the product succeed? Will it spread Alfresco? Will it make Alfresco the Enterprise Content Management System Standard on this planet?
Will it, what do you say my clever friends?
And, by the way, this thread has been going on and on and on and on, and I really don't see that any learning process has taken place. It is a ping pong game, ti tac tic tac tic tac tic tac tic tac. Successful companies usually listen to what people are saying and go through a learning process. I don't really see that taking place over here, at least not in this thread. I see a lot of clever arguments, but clever arguments alone, don't lead to success.
