FTP client on KDE

[George Toft]

Here's a real-life tale from the Corporate world.  Keep in mind,
the reason corporation buy support contracts for big $$$ is so
they can get quick fixes, and point fingers at someone when it 
blows up.

At [big corporation with blue logo], we paid over $900K for a
company, let's call them PWC (a really big consulting firm), 
to customize another product, let's call it DMS.  We have 
discovered that DMS breaks when there are more than 3000 users 
in LDAP.  We have 4000 internal users, and over 4 million 
subscribers.  PWC cannot be reached.  DMS's vendor took 7 days
to get back to us after we filed the support request, only to
tell us too bad, the code was customized, and they don't 
support modified code.  So we are pretty much on our own.

OBTW - we pay about $17 for every entry in LDAP.

For all the support we get, we could have saved 1.5 million
by using Open Source and working the project ourselves.

Open Source is awesome.  Too bad these corporations do not
understand that.

George

PS.  Again, platform costs and OS licensing costs are irrelevant.



Alan Dayley wrote:
> 
> I must be getting better at Linux.  Lately I find myself answering my own
> questions.  But this one is a great open source story.
> 
> I found a GUI FTP client called KBear.  (kbear.sourceforge.net)  I downloaded
> the source tarball.  ./configure worked fine but it would not make.  I sent
> an email quoting the make output to the author using the link provide on the
> project page.  This morning, less than 6 hours later, there was a reply
> directing me to put an additional "include" line in one of the source files.
> I did that and make worked.  I now have a very nice FTP client, better
> supported than anything commercial!
> 
> Ain't open source grand!
> 
> Alan
> 
> On Tuesday 12 March 2002 10:17 pm, you wrote:
> > I have been using ncftp in a konsole to throw files around but I have been
> > having problems with posting binary files (images) to my personal site at
> > my ISP.  It just stops the transmission and sits for a while before timing
> > out.
> >
> > 1. Is there some setting or command variation I must use to handle binary
> > files correctly?
> >
> > 2. Perhaps it is time to look at a GUI ftp client.  gftp does not count
> > since I don't have gnome installed.  Any recommendations?
> >
> > Alan
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