Isn't much of the concern that you end up having to support something
so integral on your own? Additionally, there may be no guarantee that upgrades
and bugfixes will be available in the future, though that may literally be the
case. Open-source products may face less adoption resistance when they are
supported by major industry players such as IBM. That is, the more people that
have stake in an open source product, the more inherent guarantee there may be
for a given product.
I think that part of the reason for open-source software (OSS) to exist
is that it is cumbersome and risky to start and operate a business, especially
when you will be competing directly with huge corporations who aren't
necessarily playing the same game you are (i.e. "I think people will find this
useful"). So perhaps OSS is a yang in a mutated market.
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 01:42:13PM -0500, Dave Rooney wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stede Troisi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: November 9, 2004 12:55 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [XP] Re: An Employee Owned XP Enterprise?
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> > > Why don't all customers use open source software ?
> > > The price is unbeatable - even by Indians.
> >
> > Because they can't get the custom features they want
> > for free. They want custom software, not pre-packaged
> > software.
>
> On my current contract, we use JBuilder enterprise, at $5000 CDN per
> seat. The client is only now starting to listen to us that Eclipse
> gives us more for free. In terms of support, we haven't placed a single
> support call to Borland in the past year, which isn't to say that
> Jbuilder doesn't have warts.
>
> There is still a pervasive attitude that you get what you pay for in
> software, which isn't really the case anymore.
>
> Dave Rooney
> Mayford Technologies
> http://www.mayford.ca
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