Our dog food tastes good

By headwestsimon

Changes at HeadWest means I have do some real work… I’ve been preparing systems for demonstration of our on-line service, to be launched early December. The learning curve is steep – I am a self-confessed non-geek and now am confronted with a Fedora installation, a servlet stack installation and installing our own product, ALM Suite.

The bad news, few know this, the good news, ALM Suite installs without hitch on Fedora, even though it was built for RHEL and SUSE Enterprise.

The whole installation for RT, Subversion, XPlanner and CruiseControl and the servlet stack took me 1 hour – precisely.

Now all I have to do is configure the demo environment so I can show our prospects what a great deal our SaaS offering will be.

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One Response to “Our dog food tastes good”

  1. Alec the Geek Says:

    Open Source for Non-Geeks

    My colleague Simon, a self confessed suite, was pleased to be able to install our Open source product without problems in an hour on our server.
    I think this illustrates a trend that has been evident for some time — Open source software is now  …

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