On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Danny Lieberman wrote:
> open question to the list:
>
> I'm considering starting a community project that would create
> ready-to-install "stacks" for Lamp, LamJ and Webapp clustering
> the idea is a stack for end user customers which :
>
> 1. is certified (and/or bundled) for a particular distro(rh 3 or caos)
> 2. has tested performance on a well-defined benchmark on well-defined
> hardware,
> 3. has a single uniform Web installer and configuratorthat lets a simple
> minded admin add modules she/he needs
> 4. installs in 10'
> 5. has anupdate mechanism (yum, openpkg...)
> 6. is certified for operation (and/or bundled) with common horizontal
> business applications - like SugarCrm, Mambo
>
> I have a revenue model in mind which will bring fame, fortune and attractive
> women to the project participants.
Attractive women? No kidding? :-)
> Questions:
> 1. any takers?
I am interested in learning about, researching and applying business
models for Free Software.
> 2. good idea?
To support simple-minded admins, you need not only idiot-proof software
but also support infrastructure, to handle those questions which go out of
the scope of the "book" (see recent JOS "rosh gadol" vs. "rosh katan"
discussion).
For RedHat, there is already RedHat Inc., I think. Mandrake and SuSE,
too, have commercial support IIRC. You may want to look into support for
Debian and Gentoo distributions.
Consider also documentation, guides, courses for the busy admin, who needs
to deploy and maintain those new technologies with minimum of headaches.
An advanced feature would be to provide gentle learning curves for those,
who need to dig deeper into a package, due to their special needs, which
are not met by the standard recipes.
> 3. terrible idea?
> 4. been there, done that?
>From the side of application developer. To develop an application on top
of LAMP, I needed to deal with Apache and MySQL configurations, which do
not interest me at all, but need to be dealt with in a reasonably secure
way.
>
> Any and all inputs welcome.
--- Omer
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