Jim,<br><br>At the bottom of the page at <a href="http://Linux.com">Linux.com</a> is a link titled "Write for us." You could offer to write up your story for them. :-)<br><br>Lisa<br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 8/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jim Nanney</b> <<a href="mailto:jnanney@mscoast.com">jnanney@mscoast.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>My wife and I started a business over the summer that is really starting<br>to take off. In our quest to create our own income, we decided our path<br>should be a Open Source only one. Now this may not seem so hard, but
<br>the area in which we live creates some logistical problems along that route.<br><br>We run Fedora only at our house and our children have had exposure to a<br>Free Software ONLY household the whole time. My belief in Free Software
<br>turned my wife into a Fedora user and amazingly she cannot stand other<br>operating systems. Not because of the lack of freedom but because of<br>the lack of usability. As such using any other operating system has<br>
been more of a headache to her than I ever thought possible. This is<br>after many of my failed attempts over the years to switch her from other<br>Operating Systems. Red Hat 9 was her first taste, but it was not enough
<br>to make her switch. Fedora 4 was when the switch actually occurred.<br><br>I guess the background may be a bit much, but I wonder if any of you who<br>are excellent writers would like to do a case study or interview of us
<br>about a business started purely from Open Source roots and the hassles<br>and non-hassles that has come to surface from going down an open source<br>only road.<br><br>We really want to highlight to everyone that not only is the freedom
<br>provided by open source software available, but is a key ingredient in<br>success from a business standpoint. Yes, as with any business there are<br> obstacles, but with open source solutions these have been very minor
<br>when they could have been devastating.<br><br>Our business is a grocery delivery business serving those who either<br>have no capability to shop for themselves, no time to do it, or have<br>better things to do with their time, or any combination of those three.
<br> Our business is pure open source, from the software that runs the web<br>site, the software that runs the bookkeeping, and even the software we<br>use to create our advertisements.<br><br>By using these available open source solutions we have been able to
<br>customize what we need and yet save money. Total Cost of Ownership is a<br>buzzword these days, but in essence, we are realizing huge cost savings<br>on a daily basis.<br><br>I guess I have rambled enough, but my main point is we are a great test
<br>case or point of reference for marketing Fedora in that we use its<br>capabilities to the fullest for our business, and that is proving to<br>have been an excellent choice.<br><br>Feel free to contact me if you would like more info about how we use
<br>open source and in particular Fedora to further our business.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>- --Jim Nanney<br><br>I guess I should disclose that I signed up earlier this year to be a<br>Fedora Ambassador and I have been a contributing member of the Fedora
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