linux use in the area Re: ecommerce hosting services]

[Paul Taylor]

Jason, good question. I wondered about that myself so I asked the person who
introduced me to LUG's. He's a sysadmin at Sprint watching over a bunch of
our Solaris, Unix, and Linux platforms. Found  out he dropped from the KCLUG
list last year. He told me that the list wasn't hard core enough for him and
he didn't learn anything from it.

He's a really nice guy and helps me out when I ask. Maybe he's too busy with
other stuff. Don't know, some people may not want all the OT stuff. :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Jason Clinton
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:34 PM
To: Jim Herrmann
Cc: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: linux use in the area Re: ecommerce hosting services]

Jim Herrmann wrote:

> Virtual Wow (http://virtualwow.com/) is a local company that  hosts a
> site I maintain.  They are providing virtual,  chrooted environments,
> so if they don't have exactly what you want, you can install anything
> you want (within reason) yourself.  You might give them a look, and
> help support a local small business.  BTW, they use Red Hat, Apache,
> PHP, & MySQL (isn't there an acronym for that?  RAMP?  LAMP?) and they
> have an e-commerce package, just like you wanted, for as little as
> $17.45 a month.

Does anyone else find it odd that all of these local shops we keep
hearing about are using Linux and no one from them every comes to our
LUG meetings or participates in the mailing list? Are people who are
using Linux for business not interested in the geek factor? Who's
running these things?

Are people that participate in LUGs a niche even within the Linux niche?

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Jason Clinton
I don't believe in witty sigs.