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I stopped paying because of the poor quality of Mandriva Store +</I>><i> service. Now I have a small web creation business: Fiable.biz . +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://Fiable.biz">http://Fiable.biz</A> +</I>><i> We still use Mandriva 2009 spring in 2 computers, but shifted this year to +</I>><i> Ubuntu for 2 others. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> My concern is: will Mageia meet the needs of small businesses? +</I> +i think it is too early to have already a specific business plan and +development strategies. Now the mageia guys are working hard to make available +the whole structure and basic web-service, then we can discuss about +strategy,business model, etc... + +><i> 1) Small businesses are not very interested by the famous "pro-choice" +</I>><i> policy of Mandriva. I would prefer a system that JUST WORKS rather than +</I>><i> the choice between several buggy solutions (KDE/Gnome, Kmail/Thunderbird +</I>><i> etc.). And I just don't think a small company or a small community can +</I>><i> maintain so many different competitive solutions. Making choice requires a +</I>><i> strong management, because any choice will make some users unhappy. But my +</I>><i> experience is that any computer system, because of its legacy, becomes +</I>><i> heavier and heavier, and is one day replaced by a simpler, completely new +</I>><i> one, with no legacy. I've just given up Firefox for Chromium for that. The +</I>><i> weakest is the management, the quickest the system become unmanageable. +</I> +a distro community driven can't choose what their contributors must do, +anyway thing like this: if the contributor (that uses E17) can't contribute to +it, it won't contribute to KDE4, but probably he will simply change distro, so +no manpower is wasted. + +><i> 2) Small businesses need a paid, affordable, reliable SUPPORT. Forums are +</I>><i> helpful, but quite often one doesn't find the needed answer that way. The +</I>><i> payment should of course be possible by MasterCard or Visa card. +</I> +sure. if we plan to sell specific payment versions of mageia, we need a support +service (always available and efficient), we can't rely only on forums. + +><i> 3) Small businesses need an efficient way to FIND INFORMATION QUICKLY. +</I>><i> Fragmented information systems like official web pages + mailing list + +</I>><i> wiki + forums + bugzilla + support pages, some of these in different +</I>><i> languages, make information very difficult to find. Although English is +</I>><i> the mother tongue of nobody at Fiable.biz, I would prefer no mailing list, +</I>><i> no forum, no support system, but an English wiki with discussion in the +</I>><i> wiki's discussion pages, rather than in forums, an English bugzilla for +</I>><i> bugs and enhancement wishes, and possibly wikis in other languages with +</I>><i> systematic links to the corresponding English page. +</I> +i think the basic informations could all be found in the wiki (+web-site with +description of the distro and informations to download), bugzilla, ML and +others are for contributors +><i> +</I>><i> 4) Some small businesses, like Fiable.biz, would be very interested in +</I>><i> MULTISEAT (several seats on one central unit), because it's cheaper than +</I>><i> buying one computer per employee. Unfortunately, this is not provided in +</I>><i> an easy way by any distribution, as far as I know. If you know a +</I>><i> distribution provided this, please let me know. +</I> +this could be an idea. keep it on mind : ) + +><i> I suggest you make your plans a bit more precise and wish you good luck. +</I> +these days we should have a manifesto, then we'll try to resolve all the +others big and minor issues... + +cheers, +Marcello +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="001550.html">[Mageia-discuss] Will Mageia meet small businesses' needs? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001543.html">[Mageia-discuss] Will Mageia meet small businesses' needs? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1537">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1537">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1537">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1537">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |