In comp.os.linux.advocacy, B Gruff
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wrote
on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:48:36 +0000
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> On Wednesday 10 January 2007 15:02 Aunty Diluvian wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:24:31 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Open source: moving on up the stack
>>>
>>>,----[ Quote ]
>>>| "Open source has won the first battle: It is now listed among the
>>>| default platform decisions,? says Dave Jenkins, CTO at online
>>>| outdoor sporting goods retailer Backcountry.com in Park City, Utah.
>>>| The next step, open source users agree, is moving up the stack and
>>>| figuring out which open source tools are ready for enterprise
>>>| deployments.
>>>`----
>>
>> What they mean is "....trying to decide which open-source tool
>> is CLOSEST TO BEING ready for any public deployment".
>
> No. What they said was "figuring out which open source tools are ready for
> enterprise deployments"
>
> ... and what this means is "Aunty Delivian is a pillock"
>
> Next!
>
I'll admit to wondering what "ready" means in this context.
Clearly the trolls have the capability of being overly
nitpicky in some cases. :-) (Apache, for example, is
ready now, and has been for awhile.)
Desktop tools look pretty good here, too. If anything,
Mozilla looks more ready than IE7. :-)
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