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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

www.frankeni.com/frankeni.html

DrFranken@xxxxxxxxxxxx



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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