Free online desktop came to life with FLOSS
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| Rand says open source is in his DNA. "When we started Sapotek, using
| proprietary technology wasn't even something we considered to a great degree.
| We are a free software company even more so than open source. The reasons are
| as much philosophical as technical. We believe in the ethics of free and open
| source software."
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| Rand says if there have been challenges along the way for Sapotek because of
| that belief, he hasn't noticed. "Whatever challenges there have been are
| those germane to any small startup company. Whatever the limit of our
| knowledge is. We're a small team, constantly learning. But open source itself
| isn't the problem. There are so many different flavors of open source,
| including Linux, just trying to sort through it and figure out the best
| solution, well, that's more of an embarrassment of riches than a challenge."
|
| The benefits of using open source are clearer for Rand. "From the inception
| of the company, not having to lay out a significant amount of capital right
| off the bat, that's significant.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/125270
Quote for the day:
"Number two is move Netscape out of the win32 client area."
--Paul Maritz, senior vice president Microsoft
Related and recent:
CRM company dumps Microsoft, remakes itself with LAMP
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| What Kolke and his team found was that with the low cost of a LAMP stack
| composed of CentOS, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, they were able to produce a range
| of hosted CRM solutions that wasn't possible on a Microsoft
| infrastructure. "Originally, we were intrigued by the pricing and
| distribution model [of open source] and then by the economics of developers
| in the community working on the code." The collaborative and cooperative
| nature of the open source community struck a pleasant chord with Kolke. "We
| were early users of the SOAP toolkit, and we had run into several walls with
| Microsoft where we had problems with it but couldn't get clear answers on
| when they were going to resolve the issues. We got the 'we know about it and
| we'll get to it' answer. With the open source community, we found a lot more
| support, and with having access to the code base we could contribute fixes.
| So the support was a lot more appealing for us, along with the rapid
| development cycle."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/124920
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