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> maybe the time is ripe for us to strenghten our positions in the server and desktop markets? I always thought GNOME was a desktop system. Not sure how they

by jussij 14y ago

> maybe the time is ripe for us to strenghten our positions in the server and desktop markets? I always thought GNOME was a desktop system. Not sure how they plan to take that desktop system and target it as a server platform?

wmf 14y ago
There may be a market for Apple-like Linux server admin tools. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/the-server-simplified-a-power-users-guide-to-os-x-server/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/the-server-simplified-a...
- dman 14y ago
  But will people pay for these?
  - wmf 14y ago
    Of course, I meant "market" in the Linux sense. People won't pay for any of this GNOME stuff.
pyre 14y ago
Well, they do cover things like video conferencing, which may have a back-end component.
bergie 14y ago
With Midgard we've been using some GNOME libraries like D-Bus and libgda on servers for years. And this will bring the whole set of GNOME libraries to Node.js: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/node-gir/ http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/node-gir/