As always it is a pleasure to hear from you and Alon concerning your vision for TKLX. Positive passion always helps a community to grow and remain relevant.
While I applaud the sentiment of your post I am a bit puzzled as to the problems you are concerned about and how TKLX might address these issues. Your post had a slight post-beer rant character to it..."Powerful forces are continually plotting..." :-)
If I were to make an educated guess it would appear to me that you are concerned about the risk that Mobile Apps and Cloud Services will undo all the benefits that open source server-based appliances have created in the marketplace. Mobile Apps are proprietary privacy killers (e.g. http://threatpost.com/flashlight-app-maker-settles-over-ftc-privacy-alle...) and Cloud Services are proprietary non-portable customer locks.
If that is your concern...I share it. How can TKLX address these issues...TKLX Mobile and TKLX PaaS.
TKLX selected Ubuntu / Debian with TKLDEV / TKLBAM as an appliance platform for open source server deployment. I would suggest that is it time for TKLX to branch out and select a mobile platform and PaaS platform to standardise on. Perhaps PhoneGap (http://phonegap.com/ ) or Famous (https://famo.us/) and Cloud Foundry (http://cloudfoundry.org)?
Someone needs to start promoting a model for open source Mobile Apps and Cloud Services because there are few that I have been able to find. Certainly none that rival the maturity of the appliance-based solutions currently offered through TKLX. Try to find an open source PaaS equivalent to SugarCRM or XERO! Try to find ANY decent open source mobile App with a solid community behind it!
So for my vote...TKLX Mobile and TKLX PaaS.
As they say in Australia...don't swim against a rip (riptide), if you want to survive...swim with it. Just one man's two cents worth :-)
A laudable goal...but what do you think TKLX should do about it?
Hi Liraz,
As always it is a pleasure to hear from you and Alon concerning your vision for TKLX. Positive passion always helps a community to grow and remain relevant.
While I applaud the sentiment of your post I am a bit puzzled as to the problems you are concerned about and how TKLX might address these issues. Your post had a slight post-beer rant character to it..."Powerful forces are continually plotting..." :-)
If I were to make an educated guess it would appear to me that you are concerned about the risk that Mobile Apps and Cloud Services will undo all the benefits that open source server-based appliances have created in the marketplace. Mobile Apps are proprietary privacy killers (e.g. http://threatpost.com/flashlight-app-maker-settles-over-ftc-privacy-alle...) and Cloud Services are proprietary non-portable customer locks.
If that is your concern...I share it. How can TKLX address these issues...TKLX Mobile and TKLX PaaS.
TKLX selected Ubuntu / Debian with TKLDEV / TKLBAM as an appliance platform for open source server deployment. I would suggest that is it time for TKLX to branch out and select a mobile platform and PaaS platform to standardise on. Perhaps PhoneGap (http://phonegap.com/ ) or Famous (https://famo.us/) and Cloud Foundry (http://cloudfoundry.org)?
Someone needs to start promoting a model for open source Mobile Apps and Cloud Services because there are few that I have been able to find. Certainly none that rival the maturity of the appliance-based solutions currently offered through TKLX. Try to find an open source PaaS equivalent to SugarCRM or XERO! Try to find ANY decent open source mobile App with a solid community behind it!
So for my vote...TKLX Mobile and TKLX PaaS.
As they say in Australia...don't swim against a rip (riptide), if you want to survive...swim with it. Just one man's two cents worth :-)
Cheers,
Tim (Managing Director - OnePressTech)