[ale] Re: [ale-unemployed] Where we stand 2/8/02

[Irv Mullins]

On Friday 08 February 2002 10:33 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> For the benefit of those who were unable to attend, this is a rundown of
> the (on topic :) discussions:
>
> Everyone pretty much agreed that a collective effort to get consulting
> work for all of use would be a more effective use of our individual,
> limited resources.
>
> We discussed some target markets for focusing an advertising campaign
> on. New start-up small to mid-size business and medical offices were the
> most common targets.

This is a good and sensible approach. However, these are also the 
same businesses that can't afford staff programmers, so appropriate packaged 
software (or reasonably priced custom software) must be available. I think 
that will be the biggest stumbling block to overcome. You'll need to have 
references to people who are successfully using software X, Y and Z in 
similar situations, if you expect to wean them from Windows.
 
I search the web regularly for Linux business software, but most of what 
I've found seems to fall somewhere between pre-beta and vaporware, or is 
priced out of the small business market. Hopefully, I am totally wrong 
about this - if so, someone correct me.

Regards,
Irv


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