> Well, I tend to shy away from freebies because of the support issues. This has no place in a serious discussion of issues. Support? From Microsoft? When Seimans know they have have you by the gonads and you've signed an exclusive contract with them for a healthcare system, when do you expect to get support.
In fact, all the companies and moving to the Free Software model of support (as opposed to the no support they used to have) which is an open technological discussion group with their engineers and advanced users. But why would I want to spend my time and energy becoming an expert in a closed single sourced products with no guarantees, when you just know in a year or two down the road, the whole thing will be a complete waste when "big Monopoly Company: Insert your favorite one here like Sun" will intentionally obstruct development and support within a few short months in order to push their next wonderful slaveware solution of the week. I can write a ***books*** on Foxpro 2.5, Paradox, Borland Pascal, a dozen other useless dead end technologies. I'm getting too old and have no more time to waste learning any product which won't cooperate by giving me full possession of the code base. Support be damn. When I was in the army, I learned that support was one soldier with a loaded M16. Your the first and last line of defense for support. You must understand what your working with, and you must be prepared to roll up your sleeves in order to get the job done when things go wrong. Every Eula I've read says in plain English, "Company XYZ is not responsible for the results of using their software" If your big enough and sitting near a seat of government power, you can often squeeze more, but that is not going to help the thousands health care facilities which which are our target audiences, nor will it help us in development of a sane product, Ruben ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
