gnue/docbook/articles swiss_article_1.txt

[Neil Tiffin]

CVSROOT:        /home/cvs
Module name:    gnue
Changes by:     Neil Tiffin <address@hidden>    01/10/09 07:52:49

Modified files:
        docbook/articles: swiss_article_1.txt 

Log message:
        Clean up grammer.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gnue/docbook/articles/swiss_article_1.txt.diff?cvsroot=OldCVS&tr1=1.13&tr2=1.14&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: gnue/docbook/articles/swiss_article_1.txt
diff -u gnue/docbook/articles/swiss_article_1.txt:1.13 
gnue/docbook/articles/swiss_article_1.txt:1.14
--- gnue/docbook/articles/swiss_article_1.txt:1.13      Mon Oct  8 18:25:10 2001
+++ gnue/docbook/articles/swiss_article_1.txt   Tue Oct  9 07:52:49 2001
@@ -414,8 +414,8 @@
 someone being available to answer my questions? Good question and there
 are several issues at work here.  First, GNUe relies on industry
 standards, so the solution to your problem my not necessarily require
-with the GNUe team.  There is access to many people working with these
-standards plus many people working with GNUe.  For example all
+the GNUe team.  Since GNUe uses open standard everyone has access to many 
people working with
+them plus the many people working with GNUe.  For example all
 communications between client and server in multi-tier uses standard
 CORBA 2.3 functionality provided by ORBit.
 
@@ -426,17 +426,19 @@
 
 Third, paid consulting support is available from at least 4
 organizations spread across Europe, New Zealand, and United States.
+We expect the number of support organizations to grow as we roll out
+solution to industry.
 
-Development of GNUe started with project Obelisk in July 1999. Project
-Obelisk merged with project Sanity in March 2000 to become GNUe.  As far
-as we know, GNUe is the only active multi-national enterprise project
-with consistent monthly releases since October 2000.
-
-We are a formal project under the Free Software Foundation organization.
-
-Users and consultants that know the daily business needs of companies
-from the sole proprietor up to the multi-national corporation develop
-GNUe.  Users are much closer to the development of GNUe than they are
+Furthermore the development of GNUe started with project Obelisk in July 1999. 
Project
+Obelisk merged with project Sanity in March 2000 to become GNUe.  As
+far as we know, GNUe is the only active multi-national enterprise
+project with consistent monthly releases since October 2000. We are a
+formal project under the Free Software Foundation organization. This momemtum
+is an important consideration in the maturity of a software project like GNUe.
+
+The developers of GNUe are proven mix of users, software developers and 
consultants that know the daily business needs of companies
+from the sole proprietor to the multi-national corporation.
+Users are much closer to the development of GNUe than they are
 with most proprietary software vendors.  For example from Computerworld
 September 17, 2001, "Oracle is refusing to take part in the (Oracle
 Applications Users Group) OAUG's biannual conferences and has proposed
@@ -448,7 +450,7 @@
 ----------
 
 Very impressive, says Mr. Harvard.  But how well does GNUe fit my
-business and technical infrastructure.  GNU Enterprise is structured to
+business and technical infrastructure?  GNU Enterprise is structured to
 support two types of infrastructure: two-tier and multi-tier client
 server.
 
@@ -458,12 +460,12 @@
 developers a system-building tool that does not require programming. The
 GNUe form and report tools are platform independent and run on Windows,
 GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and good old text terminals.  All forms and reports
-are defined using XML.
+are defined using GNUe Form Definition language (XML).
 
 [ 2-tier figure]
 
 Two-tier GNUe clients connect directly to an SQL database server. 
-Currently two-tier clients supports PostGreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and DB2.
+Currently two-tier clients work with several SQL databases including ODBC, 
PostGreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and DB2.
 
 Two-tier GNUe is designed to support rapid prototyping and building of
 SQL based solutions for small and medium size businesses.  Many examples
@@ -481,7 +483,8 @@
 
 Multi-tier uses the same form client, report writer, and form designer
 as two-tier. The only difference this that the client uses a GEAS driver
-(and CORBA interface) instead of an SQL server driver.
+(and CORBA interface) instead of an SQL server driver. Eventually we
+will be providing other network mechanisms for client interface.
 
 The main reason to use the multi-tier version is the scalability and
 object-oriented nature of the business objects.
@@ -490,8 +493,8 @@
 object oriented databases, distributed objects and other sophisticated
 scaleable multi-tier functions.
 
-GNUe is designed to integrate with many different systems and does not
-require changing legacy systems to GNUe.  It will run on most popular
+GEAS is designed to integrate with many different systems and does not
+require changing legacy systems to GNUe.  Again like our forms client will run 
on most popular
 hardware including Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Sun Solaris,
 GNU/Linux, or other Unix.
 
@@ -538,7 +541,7 @@
 reports. However, any single currency system can be made multiple
 currency simply by adding new currency definitions.
 
-Why GNUe [or better alternative]
+Who is using GNUe?
 
 -------
 
@@ -546,10 +549,10 @@
 people would continue to support free software if they don't make any
 money from it?
 
-There are really three types of businesses using GNUe.  The first is the
-small business.  Small businesses use GNUe because they do not have
+There are really three types of businesses using and supporting GNUe. 
+Small businesses use GNUe because they do not have
 enough resources to buy or develop a proprietary solution and or because
-they want the freedom that GNUe offers. Generally they adapt their
+they want the freedom and functionality that GNUe offers. Generally they adapt 
their
 business to GNUe. In this way they are able to reap the benefit of the
 work of larger businesses and consultants.  This model helps small
 business by providing competitive software at rates they can afford.
@@ -563,7 +566,7 @@
 The third type of business includes consultants.  Free software is an
 excellent product for consultants because they can provide paid support
 when the user needs it.  The user organization does not have to pay any
-on-going fees. The business is also free to develop their own in-house
+on-going fees. They also free to develop their own in-house
 support if they desire.
 
 Summary
@@ -572,7 +575,7 @@
 
 GNUe is really beneficial for companies that want to retain the maximum
 amount of freedom with regard to control and support of their
-information systems investment, and may be fast growing companies and or
+information systems investment, may be fast growing companies and or
 large companies that require maximum flexibility.
 
 The real benefits of GNUE are well proven functionality, open standards,
@@ -591,16 +594,3 @@
 In all honesty actual support costs should be very similar between GNUe and 
other Enterprise systems.
 
 <TODO future of GNUe, what makes for success and what needs to be carefully 
watched.>
-
-    jcater: XML Form Definition --> GNUe Common Parser -.
-    jcater:                                      |-- GNUe Common
-    jcater: SQL Server --> GNUe DB Common ------`      /\
-    jcater:                                             !!
-    jcater:                                             !!
-    jcater: X-Windows-.                                 !!
-    jcater:           |- wxWindows--.                   !!
-    jcater: Win32-----`             |                   \/
-    jcater:                      GNUe UI-----------> GFObjects
-    jcater: Curses------------------|
-    jcater:                         |
-    jcater: HTML--------------------`