[Typo3] Is TYPO3 used in amarica at all

[Patrick Gaumond]

Bill Alexy wrote:
> Patrick Gaumond wrote:
>
>> 1- TYPO3 is not made in USA.
> 
> We sure do buy alot of Chinese and Japanese products. Most of our 
> presses and direct mail machines are German. I love my Swiss Army watch. 
> Trade deficit anyone?

You know, I've got lots of US stuff and foreign stuff too. This planet 
is really small after all. Try Google Earth to confirm this.

>> 2- TYPO3 use weird date format.
> 
> "i" before "e" except after "c" or when used as in "a" like neighbor or 
> weigh.

Thanks. (note to self: always use english dictionary before posting)

>> 3- TYPO3 prefer UK english and has lots of mistakes.
> 
> Many of our perfumes and fashion products are spelled with French words 
> or UK English. It brands the products as more sophisticated than our 
> pragmatic US English can convey. What's your favourite colour?

Bleu.

I suppose that there's a difference between a perfume's name and 100 
pages of documentation.

>> 5- You will keep your client with a custom made CMS, not with a CMS 
>> wich is free(beer and money) to use.
> 
> If that's the case than why do most American Ad Agencies use Drupal?

This is news for me. I had the impression that Mambo was more popular. 
Any theory on why Drupal has such appeal? Every time I see "Theme" I got 
the impression that the output will be limited to PHPnuke kinda Blocks...

Do Ad Agencies don't mind about creative layout ? (I'm asking a serious 
question, even if it looks a bit like sarcasm. That's the problem of 
leaving in a 20% french country).


>> 6- TYPO3 is not made in USA.
> 
> Is it that you just hate Americans? I heard a statitic that over 80% of 
> the Canadian population lives along the Canadian/US border. A credit to 
> friendly relations I believe. We have much to learn about social 
> responsibility in the US, but I think we Americans (which also means 
> American immigrants) contribute in many other diverse ways as well.

No, I've been in USA about 10 times (mainly Macworld Boston in the 90's 
and kids vacation in the 70's).

The topic about the "not made in America" was discussed in the TYPO3 
Marketing  mailing list months ago by an American ! At that time 
Michelle confirmed an impression that I had.

> I think the main point is that Americans are very pragmatic and are not 
> early adopters of technology.

Maybe. On the other hand T3 is not for my Mom and Dad. Would it be 
strange that IT people are not early adopters ?


> The EU has certaintly embraced OpenSource for competitive reasons (i.e. 
> not socialist reasons). For one, the democratic backlash against patent 
> initives in the EU has discouraged closed source development and two, it 
> helps the EU compete with the US because they aren't locked into US 
> products like, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, Filemaker, Adobe, and so 
> on. What's next, the OpenSource hamburger? Break free from McDonald's 
> subversive paradigm.

I've always feel that the EU was created to "bring balance to the Force"...

And if you ever ate a burger at one of those "Quick" (that's the name!) 
fast food in Paris you would  know that there's something worst than a 
Big Mac...

> More English books would definately be a plus, but only to get people up 
> and going who have already shown interest. I don't think books would 
> drive demand. Demand for Typo3 will encourage book development not the 
> other way around.

Considering history, it looks like TYPO3 had an article in a german 
magazine (iX) in 2001 and that was the starting point of the love story 
of TYPO3 with germans. Do you think that an article in a Ziff-Davis 
publication would give the same effect ?

What could be done to help spread the word in USA ?

Patrick