Ubuntu for Small Business

[George Farris]

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 12:32 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:56:54PM -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
> > What does anyone think about an Ubuntu for Small Business as a future
> > Ubuntu subproject?  Resources are probably spread rather thin there with
> > all of the Ubuntu subprojects like myuBuntu or Ubuntu Server; so this
> > would probably not become an immediate priority.  For scope though,
> > something like:
> > 
> >  - Money clone to handle finances
> >  - POS system (there's 500,000 of them on Sourceforge, are any of them
> >    any good?)
> >  - Inventory (possibly in the POS)
> >  - Service tracker (possibly part of the POS)
> >  - Customer databasing to look up your old receipts based on your name,
> >    address, CCN, etc. (possibly in the POS)
> >  - OpenOffice.org (spread sheets, word documents, etc)
> 
> If workable open source solutions exist for these needs, then yes, I think
> it would make a lot of sense to collect them into a bundle as an Ubuntu
> derivative.

Wouldn't it be better not to have all these derivatives but instead just
have meta packages that can be installed after installing a minimal
system?