On 8/15/07, Stephen Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: T or F, Development with Open Source tools will save you money?
NULL. The license under which the tools are produced has no correlation to the outcome of the project. "DotNet doesn't kill projects, poor developers using DotNet kill projects." Can you cut down more trees with a McCulough or a Craftsman chain saw? > You write software for resale, and you need to interact with many outside > environments, Quickbooks is one of them. Quickbooks is an "environment?" I thought it was a set of proprietary applications with an expensive to access API? When you say "interact with... environments" I would anticipate interoperability between applications on OSes of different varieties, and interchanges using well-known protocols like XML-RPC or SOAP using architectures like SOA. If QuickBooks interop is a deal-breaker, then you need to define the details of what you need to develop and determine the tools that can do that. If you're writing a COM plug-in that appears in side the QB interface, you're far more limited in your choice of tools than if you just need to product QB-compliant XML for input/output exchanges. > Do you think that you could save $ in a rewrite of your current based system > going to a more Web based and web service delivery of content? I think *I* could. But you're probably more concerned about you. First, what is wrong with the current system? You won't save money re-writing it if it works fine. Second, what is it that customers need it to do? If it needs to make more widgets faster, making it web-based just annoys everyone involved. > If so what are you going to use to achieve your return? Before we choose the tools to use, we ought to define the problem that needs to be solved. What's the problem, what kinds of solution(s) are available, what tools are used to create those solutions, what platforms do the customers have, those sorts of questions. > We have a new CEO for our group and his revenue is based on this outcome. As a general rule, that's a bad sign. But some CxOs are open to the power of reason. > Stephen Russell > DBA / .Net Developer Ah! Well, there's your problem <g>! -- Ted "I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but he's so cute when he's mad" Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
