Ok... my mail might have sounded a bit sarcastic... but i think that's the price you have to pay for innovation. Either you go with the flow and pay the price (or you customers do) or you keep on using slowly deprecating technology. My customer is facing the same issue. They are still using a really old highly customized version of Websphere Product Centre (JDK1.4 ugh ugh). Upgrading will cost them 1.5 million euro ;-(
While choosing for open source will prevent vendor lock-in, not upgrading from time to time will lead to ... how will i call it: - version lock in - application lock in - ... I think it's important to inform customers about the consequences of making too many customizations. And it's equaly important to investigate if an appropiate upgrade path can be followed. I personally convince customers that upgrading with new major releases should be taken into account. Robby -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Laurent Medioni [mailto:lmedi...@odyssey-group.com] Verzonden: vr 17-12-2010 16:14 Aan: dev@cocoon.apache.org Onderwerp: RE: Latest on Cocoon? Several dozens of customers in production, using a 10 years span of our products versions, having customised on-site some of the hundreds of XSPs we deliver ? + our in-house Eclipse page designer generating XSP code, + all our framework and business taglibs on top of XSP ? ;) I wish I could fly too ;) Laurent -----Original Message----- From: Robby Pelssers [mailto:robby.pelss...@ciber.com] Sent: vendredi, 17. décembre 2010 14:14 To: dev@cocoon.apache.org Subject: RE: Latest on Cocoon? I really can't understand why you would still like to use XSP while there are far better alternatives out there? I was in the exact same position 6 years ago where we had this large Cocoon application using solely xsp's. We took the decision to rewrite all functionality to flowscript / jxtemplate and we never regretted this decision. And 2 years back I decided to switch to Cocoon 2.2 and yet again no regrets. Sure, you have to do quite a bit of additional work but postponing an upgrade will fire back at you in the long run. Not saying you have to be an early adapter but once those early birds have used it for 1 year in production environments and most bugs are removed... you should definitely consider it. I'm about to start writing my first Cocoon 3 app while it's still in alpha-2 ... See how that turns out ;-) Kind regards, Robby Pelssers ____________________________________________________________ . This email and any files transmitted with it are CONFIDENTIAL and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. . Any unauthorized copying, disclosure, or distribution of the material within this email is strictly forbidden. . Any views or opinions presented within this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Odyssey Financial Technologies SA unless otherwise specifically stated. . An electronic message is not binding on its sender. Any message referring to a binding engagement must be confirmed in writing and duly signed. . If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.
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