>
> They will do, in fact they can do it at any time, MS can buy Borland
> even if they don't want to sell it (money can do everything ;) ). If
> borland is alive is because of the MS fear to the monopoly laws.
Thank the Deity for the antimonopoly rights, then. :)
> Congratulations for your move, but think about this: all of your
> clients have moved to linux with you? I think that our real problem is
> that, sometimes, we have to "obey" our clients and they don't want to
> make a change, even if it is necessary... :(
Yes, we have to, but:
1. we can at least try the OpenSource technology and, if it fits the
particular needs, suggest our *new* clients this technology - we will be
happy, as we can use the OpenSource (free) tools, and the clients will be
happy, as they can pay a *lot* less money for our products.
2. we can suggest our old clients, if this seams reasonable in a particular
case, to move to OSS alternatives. Many OSS alternatives are compatible with
their comercial counterparts.
I would just like to point out - again! - that if we stick with MS (or any
other huge vendor) just because it's easy to do so, and it will gain more and
more market and finally perform a successful vendor lock-in, we *will* have
to pay for this in tears and hard cash, eventually.
And let's make it clear here: although I am very pro-FOSS (Free/OpenSource
Software), I don't think it is suitable for absolutely everything. Some
commercial products have parameters that are way better than OSS
implementations', some have features that OSS can only dream of.
But that's just why I just *love* OSS: it provides cheap (free!) alternatives
to commercial products, so that software companies - like Borland or MS -
have to sit down and *do some work* to get their products *better* than those
offered as OSS.
This gives the users the possibility to get more value for their money! And
makes Big Fat Vendors produce some *good* software, because otherwise - their
clients will eventually move to OSS.
That's also the reason, why I advocate for OSS - try it, use it, and if it
fails to satisfy - *then* buy commercial counterpart.
Example: I installed Linux four years ago as a "test", and within 6 months I
completely moved to Linux. As a system - it satisfies my needs. I can have a
*good*, *stable* (I haven't had a hangup once!) and feature-laden (some
features even WinXP doesn't have - like creating multiple networks on one
ethernet card, for instance) Operating System for free or almost free - and
*legally*. But If I would run a rocking big company with a database
containing myriads of records - I suppose I would have to buy a commercial DB
solution. But If I had such a company - I would have the money to do so.
Uff, a long one, sorry for that. ;)
Cheers
Mike
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