I am attempting to set up an enterprise where there are zero EMPLOYEES but rather investors of time more so over finance.

I.e. if the founder is willing to never take a salery then other contributors i.e. whole salers, resellers, programmers etc the whole gammet never takes a salery.

However, as investors everyone will be an investor of some sort and will see a rise in their share as the enterprise grows, like a co-operative, but where the dividend is paid say quarterly or monthly depending on profits.

The key would be that anyone can work on behalf of the enterprise but they must be able to sell via putting the word out about products. This way a MultiLevelMarketing mechanism can be used to record performance which then relates to added benifits on payday so to speek.

I imagine it to work a bit like Amazon, Ebay, E-Sources, etc with flavours of each rolled together. The whole enterprise will work under one payment gateway mechanism as a standard, unlike the source code for OSCommerce which provides for umpteen gateway payment solutions.

I am also thinking of rolling a mechanism into the enterprise that replaces the shaky pensions pot system by including the idea of The Infinate Banking Concept rolled together with Peer-to-Peer Lending.

Progress so far is still in the reading of the Drupal API, as I think this provides the base security and structure I have been looking for the last 5 years. So far I was trying to hardcode hack the OSCommerce sopping cart to do what I wanted, I.e. build an API, have user roles etc etc etc But discovered 4 years in that there were weaknesses in the package that allowed a worm to muck up my development site 3 times before I found the issues that sould have been highlighted when I installed the code!!!!!!!

This time round I am thinking drupal and the first book I am reading is the SECURITY book!!!

I have a mini wiki on my site with my ideas etc which are changing quicker than I can update the wiki pages hence its static look for the last few months. there are other artickes now hidden but still accessable in the back ground through some still existant links….

Have a poke around and let me know your thoughts

Matthew John Ritchie.

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However, most Enterprises don’t understand community, particularly the variant of community that exists in the open source arena.

The reason there is so little Linux based EPOS is I suspect because M$ are buying market. See old press releases re Tesco’s initial decision to use Linux based tills until M$ made them an offer they could not refuse

I have now moved on from the previous client and am now helping a large UK bank with their Linux strategy. So FOSS and Linux in particular is certainly now very serious business!

Also, if you’re going down the Windows domain route, and you’re still going to need Exchange, MSSQL or Sharepoint, you might want to look at SBS 2008 again – it does work out significantly cheaper

I didn’t watch all the video, but I believe it doesn’t offer a ‘backwards’ compatibility email function (i.e. it’s isolated from email – so you can’t email in, or out). Is that right?

The video did show a spam folder (or similar) in the top left of the UI, so I presume they’re assuming spam will enter the system at some point.

David