[TYPO3-50-general] [TYPO3-dev] For whom do we/you develop

[Peter Russ]

I just want to start a discussion about the target of all the further 
development. It seems to me that is becomes more and more academically. 
Discussing about sofisticated file structures.
Fighting for design patterns.

If the target is to get big companies involved with big money (is this 
still available?) I would agree to go for concepts taking place in the 
future. How long did it take from Star Office to reach the available 
state of OpenOffice to be able to compete with MS Office but still not 
accepted in companies? Take a look at your agency: what are you using 
internally? Thunderbird with Lighting, Apple's derivates or MS brands?

Where do we, where does TYPO3 comes from, who is using it and who is 
producing revenue? At this stage my feeling is that a lot of people can 
use and make their live based on TYPO3. Ok: there are differences in the 
quality. But if the customer is happy, it is his/her/their right to 
decide how much he/she/they is/are willing to invest/in-waste.

With the new approach to try to develop a new framework I see an 
interesting concept for major players to deal with customers able to 
think in models, views, controller or (for the common user) in 
processes. But if you take into account how long it even takes to design 
this things on paper and define a common understanding my rough guess 
would be that this percentage of business is similar to the number of 
people paying the majority of the income tax in Germany. But not making 
the rev of the common TYPO3 supplier.

So my intension would be a more harden TYPO3 where DBAL is not only a 
paradigm for CORE devs, where indexed_search is performing lighting 
fast, connectors to other Frameworks like ZF would be optimized and a 
CORE focus and... please fill free to expand this wish list.

And please don't tell me that a repository makes life easier: if I ask 
my wife in the morning what to put on she tells me go the wardrobe.

As long as you have no idea what you can ask for you'll get nothing ;-)
Gimme blog, news, calendar? No, I want content....
Perhaps you'll get what I'm trying to say.

Peter



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