linux use in the area Re: ecommerce hosting services]

[admin at kclinux.net]

I'll have to agree with Aaron on this one.  Especially since the time is now
bumped up even earlier, and all the way down town, I don't have the time to
go to the meetings.  Now if I just happen to be downtown at 5:00pm or so, I
would stop by.  But all of my clientelle are either way up north (Liberty),
west (Bonner Springs), east (Independence), or south (OP) of downtown.  

Plus working on computers all day, I'm not really interested in more hours
playing on computers in the evening. If computers was just a hobby, then
yes, I would probally be more interested in going.  

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Aaron
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:43 PM
To: Jason Clinton; Jim Herrmann
Cc: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: linux use in the area Re: ecommerce hosting services]

I have over 150 Linux machines I do webhosting on and I attend the ILUG
meetings sometimes.  I just never have time to hit a KCLUG meeting.

Aaron

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Clinton" <me at jasonclinton.com>
To: "Jim Herrmann" <kclug at ItDepends.com>
Cc: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:33 PM
Subject: linux use in the area Re: ecommerce hosting services]

Jim Herrmann wrote:

> Virtual Wow (http://virtualwow.com/) is a local company that  hosts a 
> site I maintain.  They are providing virtual,  chrooted environments, 
> so if they don't have exactly what you want, you can install anything 
> you want (within reason) yourself.  You might give them a look, and 
> help support a local small business.  BTW, they use Red Hat, Apache, 
> PHP, & MySQL (isn't there an acronym for that?  RAMP?  LAMP?) and they 
> have an e-commerce package, just like you wanted, for as little as 
> $17.45 a month.

Does anyone else find it odd that all of these local shops we keep hearing
about are using Linux and no one from them every comes to our LUG meetings
or participates in the mailing list? Are people who are using Linux for
business not interested in the geek factor? Who's running these things?

Are people that participate in LUGs a niche even within the Linux niche?

--
Jason Clinton
I don't believe in witty sigs.