Hi Francois, S, Francois Stephany piše:
For some freelance work, my clients sometimes ask if there are a lot of people that can continue/maintain their project if I die/quit/start a bakery business.
I have the same question often. And helps when I say my customers: 1. That there is a company (not just a person) nearby (same town or say 100 km around), which works on similar projects (Smalltalk and Aida/Web in my case) 2. That people from international community can be asked for help, because my projects are coded (including comments) in English, even that projects are for domestic customers. So far my customers didn't come to question yet if tools used are open source or not and how is about their long-term availability including vendor stability. They know that partly are open source partly commercial but this is too far from their interest. Best regards Janko
Who could continue Pharo/Seaside project? Especially in the French/Dutch speaking world.
I guess the Pharo Consortium will help to get some credibility when proposing Pharo to a client.
Cheers, Francois
-- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si