Submitted by Matthew Davidson (not verified) on Sat, 09/20/2008 - 13:48.
(Love the Apple quote. Do you have a source for that? It could be my next email sig.)
I think in addition to finding the right customers, you have to find vendors who have a reason to offer Drupal. An example that I've been advocating for a while is small local ISPs.
Small ISPs are not in a happy place; telcos are undercutting them by bundling Internet access with services that they can't provide (POTS, mobile, cable, etc.), or just by having deep pockets and discounting them out of business. The answer? Bundle Internet access with services that telcos don't have a competitive advantage (or monopoly) in.
I'd like to see a Drupal distribution for feed aggregation, [micro]blogging, calendaring, etc. (distributed social networking), that comes pre-installed and running on a DMZ in the modem/router (with perhaps a little more memory than is currently considered standard) that your ISP gives you when you sign up for an account with them.
You as the customer get all the trendy services that make the web compelling; you don't have to agree to being data-mined by half a dozen different companies and subjected to classified ads; it's all on a system that you own, control, and is sitting in your house; and the customer support is conveniently permanently located at the other end of the wire it's plugged into.
(Love the Apple quote. Do you have a source for that? It could be my next email sig.)
I think in addition to finding the right customers, you have to find vendors who have a reason to offer Drupal. An example that I've been advocating for a while is small local ISPs.
Small ISPs are not in a happy place; telcos are undercutting them by bundling Internet access with services that they can't provide (POTS, mobile, cable, etc.), or just by having deep pockets and discounting them out of business. The answer? Bundle Internet access with services that telcos don't have a competitive advantage (or monopoly) in.
I'd like to see a Drupal distribution for feed aggregation, [micro]blogging, calendaring, etc. (distributed social networking), that comes pre-installed and running on a DMZ in the modem/router (with perhaps a little more memory than is currently considered standard) that your ISP gives you when you sign up for an account with them.
You as the customer get all the trendy services that make the web compelling; you don't have to agree to being data-mined by half a dozen different companies and subjected to classified ads; it's all on a system that you own, control, and is sitting in your house; and the customer support is conveniently permanently located at the other end of the wire it's plugged into.