Michael,
<p>
I agree that the ASP solution is the future, but many of the big companies that
we talk to are far from there.
</p>
<p>
We host a majority of our clients, which are medium to small(500-100 users),
but the larger companies all want it inside their firewall.
</p>
<p>
Do any of your corporate clients take advantage of the fact that the code is
open? The reason I ask is that I don't believe that any of the large companies
with whom we are working or speaking that want to host internally would
customize our product regardless of what language it is written; therefore, I
am not sure that the people with whom I talk care if it is written in TCL. Do you
have contrary experience?
</p>
<p>
Also, when I am speaking to a purchaser in a fortune 500 manufacturer, all he
cares about is that our system addresses a pain, that it is going to save the
company money, and that his IT people don't have a problem with the
technology. That is where we run into the AOLServer dilemma. Although I
am a strong believer in AOLServer, I have unfortunately been unable to
overcome this dilemma in many cases. If anyone has been consistently
successful selling AOLServer, I would be very eager to understand the sales
approach.
</p>
<p>
If a funded effort was devoted to porting mod_aolserver to Apache 2.x, do you
think that we could ever get performance comparable to the AOLServer
configuration?
</p>
<p>
How much funding do you believe it would take?
</p>
<p>
Does the Apache community have solutions like the OpenACS and dotLRN?
</p>
Thanks,<br>
Chip
