Hi Stefan, Am Mittwoch, 8. März 2017, 08:23:43 CET schrieb Stefan Schäfer:
let's stop the discussion about the meaning about the acronym "SMB". What Klaas talked about was indeed "Small and medium business". The german acronym for this is KMU (Kleine und Mittelständische Betriebe).
What we (Klaas and me) want to talk about was the qualification of openSUSE Leap to fulfill a lot of needs of small business companies.
About 98% of all tax paying companies in Germany (an I think in he EU at all) have less than 50 employees. The IT infrastructure of a lot of them is a mess and dominated by Windows.
Unfortunately, yes. Knowledge about alternatives, FUD, willingness to move away from mainstream are some of the reasons.
We the invis-Server Projekt (as an very unknown openSUSE Spin Off) build a cost effective server system for these companies. Klaas whith his "pet project" ;-) Kraft develops an accounting software for small business. With our projects we try to deliver cost effective IT for these small companies.
Had a look at your page, looks very promising. Interesting that odoo fits into that portfolio - the reasons why the main developers left some 10 years ago and founded Tryton have not disappeared AFAIK - mainly the not real open business model. But thats a different story for offline..... (Tryton is on OBS, by the way)
What we want to do is to start an openSUSE Team with other people of the openSUSE community who uses openSUSE to build up IT Infrastructure in small business companies.
With Klaases words: "We think and hope that there are other community members around who have experience in SMB, and a Project Team's task would be to collect the information, create and document solution proposals and hints, and promote openSUSE and the existing SMB solutions together."
Please substitute the acronym "SMB" with "Small and Medium Business". ;-) ... and let's talk about this.
Providing IT to SMB is not my main business, but would be interested to join the talk. Cheers Axel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org