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OGo: No go so far (NewsForge)OGo: No go so far (NewsForge)Posted Jul 15, 2003 11:48 UTC (Tue) by davidl (guest, #12156)Parent article: OGo: No go so far (NewsForge) Oh dear, another 'x, y and z is not ready for the enterprise' article. Open Source projects give ample warning if a piece of software is not ready for widespread use - unlike commercial companies. Was NT ready for widespread use? Part of being an IT professional is evaluating whether something is ready for use, and doing adequate research. If you download this software without thinking about it and use it, then you're not an IT professional in any shape or form. This article just highlights how many Microsoft/commercial software oriented arseholes we have in the industry who pass themselves off as 'IT professionals'.
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OGo: No go so far (NewsForge) Posted Jul 15, 2003 13:40 UTC (Tue) by pavlicek (guest, #323) [Link] Oh please. There are very few people who have fought as long and as hard to see Linux in the enterprise. I started pushing it in 1997 in Digital Equipment Corporation.I think OGo could possibly be enterprise-ready soon. Unfortunately, the press release said it was ready now when it cannot even be installed by anyone who was not on the project team. That's not a slam against Open Source in the enterprise. That's a criticism of a press release which is deceptive. Open Source is not about deception. It relies on true and accurate communication. This press release crossed the line and may cause IT managers to think there is a solution here when it hasn't arrived yet. And that may poison the minds of some in IT against Open Source.
OGo: No go so far (NewsForge) Posted Jul 15, 2003 21:01 UTC (Tue) by ka6s (guest, #12952) [Link] I think this one did go over the line.The press release caused me to go out and download the software and give it a try. Indeed they have a LONG way to go for this software to even install on a normal distribution. The project uses some "not so normal" tools, i.e. objective C and the GNUStep environment that make even compiling from source difficult. At the same time, the folks at OGo are trying REAL HARD to support people and fix problems. I imagine they have come farther in the last few days than in the last few months of development just because the software was exposed to environments outside the developer's machine! So - I think the initial article is essentially correct, yet given a little bit of time the OGo suite will become quite useful!
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