On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Orlando Andico <[email protected]> wrote: > Generally people moving from Free software to closed-source do so for > these reasons: > > 1) they need some proprietary software that doesn't run on Free (e.g. > SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Infor, Baan.....)
why not the owners of these try to make this run on "Free" > 2) they need additional functionality (e.g. that shopping cart you > built on LAMP, now needs to talk to MasterCard, so you need PCI and > SOX compliance) open card network? can these laws be made fair to "Free"? > 3) they need additional scaling / disaster recovery / high > availability (here we go again: MySQL Cluster does scale horizontally, > but it has its own set of limitations not least of which is it is > memory-based so if you have five years' worth of transactions it may > not fit in memory) > > 4) the CIO got nervous about running the heart of the business on Free > software > i have yet to see a Closed comapny not to use this as a marketing tool. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
