[ale] Business opportunity...

[Christopher Fowler]

Setting up LAMP servers and developing interfaces and agents are
different.  Sure these have been done before but this company needs more
than:

# tar -xzvf lamp.tar.gz
# cd lamp
# ./configure && make && make install
# exit

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:29, jeff wrote:
> I see a marked flaw in the analogy.  In the 1950s, developing a
> pacemaker would unquestionably have been a cutting-edge engineering feat
> with a tremendously lucrative potential.  But fifty years later, setting
> up a LAMP-based Web server is about as cutting-edge as it would have
> been to manufacture an ice cream cone in the 1950s.  
> 
> A great many worthless businesses rose and fell in the late 1990s based
> around innumerable business models all having a Web server at their
> core.  Especially having recognized the "HTML/UI design partner"
> language from ventures I personally saw go down in flames, I perceive a
> request for free IT consulting.   
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 11:13, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > My friends father-in-law started a gig like this in the 50's and now is
> > Daddy Warbucks.  He was the engineer that developed the pacemaker for
> > Medtronics in MN.  Sweat Equity sure did help him out.  I love visiting
> > them in their house.  No need to walk up stairs.  I just take the
> > elevator.
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 10:16, George Carless wrote:
> > > Deary me.  And if anyone else would like to do all of the real work in setting up a 
> > > money-making enterprise for me, in exchange for a percentage of my profits, please do let ME 
> > > know, too... :P
> > > 
> > > Is your partner an MBA graduate, perchance, Scott?
> > > 
> > > --George
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