Re: p and i systems reliability

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, the more I have thought about it, the more I have liked it 
that idea.  We'd need to look at what a "typical" small business needs 
(if there is anything such as "typical"). Just defining "Small Business" 
is tough.  I think IBM sees "Small Business" as a $10-15 million 
business.  My idea is less than a Mil. I can't remember the stats but I 
though it was like, 60% of businesses have less than 10 employees and 
$500,000 in revenue.  I'll have to do some research.

At the core is probably a contact management (CRM-ish) stuff with some 
financial accounting as well (like Quickbooks)  There are some Open 
Source financial applications out there, I just haven't looked at them 
closely.

It would be great to get a Top 10 list of Small Business Application 
needs and then figure out how to meet those needs on an i.

Pete


Larry Bolhuis wrote:
> Pete,
>
>     In tough economic times a server that just runs and runs is 
> important and I absolutely agree that i on Power is IT. I applaud your 
> concept of a "Run it all on i" challenge for small business. I'm a small 
> business too. So far I run my web server on i and my mail server on i. I 
> also use it for me FTP server and file server backup for my (windoze) 
> laptop. I certainly don't have a good replacement for quickbooks though. 
> What's out there for that in the same price range?
>
>     So how do we make this happen?
>
>     Anyone?
>
>     - DrFranken.
>  
>
> DrFranken
>
> Chief Mad Scientist
> Frankeni Technology Consulting, LLC
> Middleville, MI  49333
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>
>
> Pete Helgren wrote:
>   
> > "And most small businesses already struggle with one platform."
> >
> > And there's the pity.  An i bundled with a "Small Business Suite" of 
> > applications that anyone could run and manage would be a real plus (if 
> > it were affordable).  I know. I run a small business myself and wish all 
> > my apps, soup to nuts, were running on our i.  I am close, just not 
> > there (yet).
> >
> > So, what we need is a "Run it all on i" challenge for a small business.  
> > Although the desktops would have to be Linux/Windows (unless you ran VNC 
> > desktops in PASE -- again, missing applications there) it would be cool 
> > to see a small business running their server apps all on the i.
> >
> > Pete
> >
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> > >