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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    kde consultants?
From:       dep <dep () westnet ! com>
Date:       1999-08-13 3:13:17
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greetings!

i don't know if there is a site that does this; if there is, i
haven't found it. and in that this is the place where the powers that
be in kde can regularly be found, i'm posting this here, even though
it is not directly a development issue.

one of the reasons for resistance to linux/kde in the enterprise is
the lack of "tech support." now, the things that go wrong with kde
are typically few and minor. i break stuff sometimes because a little
knowledge is a dangerous thing.<g> but still, there's this
microsoft-induced sense that unless you have a consultant or a
pay-per-call tech support number available, it's not really serious
software.

my guess is that there are actually people who offer this kind of
service. i'm thinking in particular of people who will come in and
set up a linux/kde system or network and be available to tend it when
the local talent fails.

the problem is in finding such persons. some of the distributions
offer training and tech support, and in that many distributions
include kde presumably support extends, at least to some extent, to
it. but the small company, the free-lancer -- there's no place where
a company can turn to find a listing of people who really know kde
and who will perform services that no one in the company itself will
do. (i know of one medium-sized firm in new york city that would
switch to linux in a heartbeat if someone could be found who knows
it; their nt network is a disaster and their mis people are all
ms-certified cookie-cutter clones whose knowledge extends to having
memorized the tech support number and the tech support account
number. they are not going to be linux folk, because to them
computers are a job, not a passion.)

so then. there's a listing here of kde books. might it not also be a
good idea to have a listing of kde consultants? then the enterprise
looking to switch to linux and the best desktop for it, but unwilling
to go it alone, would have a place to look for the person to call.

just an idea, but one that i think would do a lot toward increasing
kde's presence on the desktops of businesses, presuming that this is
something in which you are interested. i suspect that a listing of
people who can develop custom kde apps -- database development is an
enormous indistry here -- would be very useful, too.

just a thought.
-- 
dep__________________________________________________________________
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