Hi
My comments to this article are that alot of the people buying the products
may not be sufficiently informed to buy 'only what they need'.
Marketing hype and vendor loyalty do go a long way in getting sales. Support
could be another reason. I KNOW I'm going to get better (but more expensive)
suport from say IBM than some of the Open Source free projects out there.
Calling someone you have a contract with goes a lot farther in ensuring you
getn an answer then the whim of some group of programmers on an open source
project.
Additionally, do you want to buy just what you need when you have to
consider that requirements MAY change in the future? Personally I think it's
better to buy something you can grow into then to buy something you grow out
of in no time.
Now, I don't beleive you have to buy Websphere or Weblogic if you're writing
a site that has one dynamic page that shows inventory on your limited 10
item database. But if I'm building a corporate wide application with lots of
data persistance, then trying to get ONLY exactly what I need... ouch, I'd
be hangin myself if the requirements changed. (And they always do).
Lastly, as for the 'why do people buy something they don't need'... I always
think 'why do we buy Off road trucks and SUV's simply to ride to and from
work in the city'? Heck, most of the population could get by riding Honda
Civics, Austin Mini's and Toyota Tercels.. but we go for the beasts.
Maybe this could be some form of IT maschismo.. "Oh, you guys only use Resin
at your place? Well <BOLD>I'M</BOLD> using Websphere 19.0 with distributed
clustering on 14 AS/400's" (grunt, grunt grunt)
I don't think so Tim!!
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