On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Johann Vincent Paul Tagle <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't think they are thinking short term but thinking what makes sense > with regard to their business. They need such a feature now, they can pay > for it, so they go with what's available and can be reliably supported now. clearly short term since you used the word "now." > One of your objectives in your biking must be to get healthy, and there's > really no shortcut to it but dedication and practice. However, in business, > there are many ways to accomplish something, and what you choose should be > what makes sense to you. If you are making say 25M per year on a product > using an Oracle database, the initial 2M investment and the succeeding 0.5M > yearly support cost is nothing. Anything as long as you earn? > Even if in the long run the open source > alternative is a lot cheaper, they won't be willing to make the change, > because what they have simply works for them. You used "long run". Are you thinking the other one is short term then? _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
