The article states that "If it wants to be a serious, respected player in the world of open source, as befits its size, it must do better."; -
What makes anyone think that SAP would care about being respected in the open source world? They are a large business and the stakeholders that they are rightfully interested in (like every other large business) are
1. Their Investors/Shareholders
2. Their customers
3. Their employees.
SAP uses Open Source where appropriate (as they should) to enhance shareholder value or customer value or for that matter employee value.
The real question should be "If the open source world wants to be a serious, respected entity in the world of business (the real world) then IT MUST DO BETTER. The Open Source World needs to demonstrate and evangelize models and mechanisms for monetizing the investment that business's make into Open Source. While this exists today, the focus on this is very limited with greater emphasis on "Open Source Purity" verses "Business Value through Open Source"
To add to that Samba is not a cloned MS Tech. Windows networking is only an implementation of the CIFS (Common Internet File System) standard also known as the SMB (Server Message Block) standard
I think all the mac users should tell apple about the bugs which you face and new features you desire so that they can fix and add quickly.
My point here is what one does not know one cannot fix and hence apple should be always alerted first by you guys before you put them up in the forums.
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The article states that "If it wants to be a serious, respected player in the world of open source, as befits its size, it must do better."; -
What makes anyone think that SAP would care about being respected in the open source world? They are a large business and the stakeholders that they are rightfully interested in (like every other large business) are
SAP uses Open Source where appropriate (as they should) to enhance shareholder value or customer value or for that matter employee value.
The real question should be "If the open source world wants to be a serious, respected entity in the world of business (the real world) then IT MUST DO BETTER. The Open Source World needs to demonstrate and evangelize models and mechanisms for monetizing the investment that business's make into Open Source. While this exists today, the focus on this is very limited with greater emphasis on "Open Source Purity" verses "Business Value through Open Source"
To add to that Samba is not a cloned MS Tech. Windows networking is only an implementation of the CIFS (Common Internet File System) standard also known as the SMB (Server Message Block) standard
I think all the mac users should tell apple about the bugs which you face and new features you desire so that they can fix and add quickly.
My point here is what one does not know one cannot fix and hence apple should be always alerted first by you guys before you put them up in the forums.