Open Source is free as in Frustration. Don't let anyone lie to you and say that it is not.
Just had an install scheduled for Monday 4-26 get derailed because of updates. I work with java based Web Services for data access to the massive systems for the court and the jail. Well a new version of their production SERVER has not been able to be built and this afternoon was drop dead date. They cannot get all of the tools loaded on this box like they have working on the stage one. Manpower on this is in multiple man weeks. Only 2 people have been working on it and a third was brought in to duplicate the fiasco. The same group spent close to a month on the Stage box and this a mirror of it. I have to not laugh when I see the frustration on their faces. I have brought over programmer candy twice, Advill is you didn't know the joke. They are trying very hard, they are pretty smart people up against a multitude of product versions and updates that all have to be installed a specific way. I lived this same level of bull shit when I thought that I would boot Linux and vbox Win7. What a load of crap that was. The straw that broke that back was an update to Ubuntu 9.10 and the vbox failed. That was it I had wasted way to many hours for 0 value. Well I did love the Frustration and yes that was free. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell _______________________________________________ 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.
