[Finance] Re: [theforum] lists (was: We've got a serious problem here at evolt.org)

[Martin Burns]

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On 15 May 2004, at 09:24, s t e f wrote:

> <quote who='Martin Burns' when='15/05/04 01:06'>
>> Plan is good. But to move the other one, we need to do one of two 
>> things:
>> 1) Take on support for a Windows/SQLServer/CF box (and note, pay 
>> licensing costs)
>> 2) Move weo off the current platform to something free - likely Linux 
>> + Apache + OSS CMS (Drupal, Plone or similar)
>> In either case, it will take a large amount of discussion to make the 
>> decision - either way, we're going to piss people off who have given 
>> a lot of time and effort to evolt, and don't deserve to be pissed 
>> off. This is part of why the discussion hasn't happened yet.
>
> Martin, care to explain that part? It didn't get through my hazy brain.


Currently weo runs on Jeff's Win2k/SQLServer/CF box.

If it were to move to an evolt.org box,

1) we could have a Win2k(etc) box, which will cost us in license fees, 
and Sysadmin would have to be OK about supporting it. I would imagine 
that the ease of the migration would be offset by unhappiness about the 
cost and ease of supporting Windows.

or

2) We could have a Linux box, which would mean a substantial rewrite in 
the CMS, involving no longer using much of the CMS code to date. This 
would upset those who have contributed to it - particularly Jeff.

Making either choice is going to upset people I think. And that's one 
reason we haven't talked about it - we don't want to upset anyone.

Cheers
martin
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