gnue/docbook/articles swiss_article_1.txt

[Neil Tiffin]

CVSROOT:        /home/cvs
Module name:    gnue
Changes by:     Neil Tiffin <address@hidden>    01/10/09 09:28:59

Modified files:
        docbook/articles: swiss_article_1.txt 

Log message:
        Rewrap text and add figure names.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gnue/docbook/articles/swiss_article_1.txt.diff?cvsroot=OldCVS&tr1=1.14&tr2=1.15&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: gnue/docbook/articles/swiss_article_1.txt
diff -u gnue/docbook/articles/swiss_article_1.txt:1.14 
gnue/docbook/articles/swiss_article_1.txt:1.15
--- gnue/docbook/articles/swiss_article_1.txt:1.14      Tue Oct  9 07:52:49 2001
+++ gnue/docbook/articles/swiss_article_1.txt   Tue Oct  9 09:28:59 2001
@@ -414,10 +414,10 @@
 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
-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.
+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.
 
 Second, GNUe has developers in Europe, Australia, and the United States.
 This means that someone is on-line using the GNUe IRC channel 24 hours
@@ -429,21 +429,23 @@
 We expect the number of support organizations to grow as we roll out
 solution to industry.
 
-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
-that they be folded into its own AppsWorld event - a suggestion that the
-independent user group has rejected thus far."
+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 that they be folded into its own
+AppsWorld event - a suggestion that the independent user group has
+rejected thus far."
 
 GNUe Tools
 
@@ -462,17 +464,18 @@
 GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and good old text terminals.  All forms and reports
 are defined using GNUe Form Definition language (XML).
 
-[ 2-tier figure]
+[ 2-tier figure, GNUeFormsArchitecture]
 
-Two-tier GNUe clients connect directly to an SQL database server. 
-Currently two-tier clients work with several SQL databases including ODBC, 
PostGreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and DB2.
+Two-tier GNUe clients connect directly to an SQL database server.
+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
 exist in the distribution including contact manager, purchase orders and
 invoicing. Two-tier GNUe is the most mature part of GNU Enterprise.
 
-[ n-tier figure ]
+[ n-tier figure, GNUeGEASArchitecture]
 
 The main business applications in GNU Enterprise are developed around
 our multi-tier solution, which we call GEAS  (GNU Enterprise Application
@@ -494,9 +497,9 @@
 scaleable multi-tier functions.
 
 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.
+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.
 
 Providing Business Functionality to GNUe
 
@@ -518,6 +521,8 @@
 existing business objects. By extend we mean add additional fields and
 business rules.
 
+[Package/Module figure, GNUePkgArchitecture]
+
 Business objects are designed for easy mixing and matching with GNUe or
 3rd party solutions.  Business Rules are object methods that can be
 executed locally or on a server.  They may be written in C or Python
@@ -549,10 +554,10 @@
 people would continue to support free software if they don't make any
 money from it?
 
-There are really three types of businesses using 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 and functionality that GNUe offers. Generally they adapt 
their
+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 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.