Re: A Funny Job Ad / Macromedia

I was just speaking with someone the other day at Chrysler and he stated that they use something called wvHtml (and some other program which I forget the name of) in many instances to create HTML from MS Word docs. Yes, MS has 'save as HTML', but it's pretty much bloated crap. So, even tho Chrysler has paid $$$ for MS stuff, the tech people behind the scenes use open source to actually DO stuff. Not saying that people don't use DW, but it kinda opened my eyes a little to realize that even in large companies where millions are spent on this stuff, people often fall back to open source because it (1) really works and (2) solves a real problem. Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > Someone received a smarmy answer from Macromedia here at a seminar > > the other day when asking about PHP support in DreamWeaver UltraDev, > > specifically why it's not there. Answer: "Because we actually *charge* > > for our software". > > > > *sigh* > > *sigh* indeed. I run across attitudes like that all the time dealing with > traditional pay-as-you-go software companies. It used to be that they > would say that they had never heard of PHP, or if they had heard of it > they would say that nobody used it. Now everyone has heard of it and it > would be hard to say that nobody uses it, so they fall back on completely > illogical statements like that. Perhaps they are just feeling threatened. > > -Rasmus > -- ========================== Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961