Re: VCs eyeing Open Source with respect?

["SANIsoft" <tarique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>during the VC mania of late last year. VCs these days actually ask
>questions before they pay :)

Well the idea this client has is good but his going the M$ way will not help
us ;-)  I will now angle that a PHP site will be cheaper to develop and
easier to maintain and scale than ASP (Which is a fact)

Thanks

Swati

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-----Original Message-----
From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: [LIG] VCs eyeing Open Source with respect?


>On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 06:51:59PM +0530, SANIsoft wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> With the eminent break up of M$ it is rumored the Venture Capitalist are
>> eyeing Open Source Web projects with more respect
>
>Actually, since the first week of April, VCs have started asking -
>'Show me the money'. Redhat and VA both posted narrower than expected
>losses - which helped their stock a little bit. But its getting harder
>and harder to get funding the way eazel, opensales.org etc got
>during the VC mania of late last year. VCs these days actually ask
>questions before they pay :)
>
>So whether open source goes mainstream or not depends little on microsoft,
>but more on the ability of open source companies to add value to all
>the techie stuff being cranked out. They need to manage some of the
>inherent contradictions (you know, the stuff we've been talking about
>on this list for a while) well.
>
> -Arun
>
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