Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
On 4/20/06 9:42 PM, "Russ McBride" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah, it seems crazy these days to actually have to *pay* for a
database.
Wow. What an interesting point of view !!! :-)
Hmm, why not say:
it seems crazy to pay for Revolution or other RAD tools
it seems crazy to pay for compilers
it seems crazy to pay for MS Office
it seems crazy to pay for Adobe products.
The difference is that there exist a number of (more or less) adequate
DBs which are free (in one sense or another). You, or I, may or may not
like that fact - but it is a fact nevertheless. Therefore it can be
viewed as "crazy"to choose to pay for one - UNLESS the one you pay for
provides significant benefits (as we already heard, Frontbase does for
some people, we know Valentina does for some people, etc.)
There is nothing resembling Rev which is free, nor some of the Adobe
products.
Personally, I do thinks it's crazy to pay for Office products :-)
compilers are perhaps more varied and specialized - but I ran a 2000+
developer organization on free compilers, producing very large software
products. (though we paid a lot of money for a support contract for
those "free" compilers :-)
People. You ARE developers.
Please stop this evil and crazy ideas of free software!
It will throw programming industry into death.
Believe you into this or no.
I am related to universities, and I know that last 5 years many smart guys
which COULD be good and cool programmers (by their school activity) have
choose other specialty. Reasons? Simple:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
A) They listen SUCH danger discussions about free software...
And they make conclusions...They do not want work in future for free.
So - NOT PROFITABLE.
B) today all major software exists. No chances invent and implement
something really new and cool. So - NOT INTERESTING.
I think a major, additional reason is
C. They read in the press about software jobs being off-shored, and
think there will be no jobs.
They didn't read the small print that said that the number of software
jobs in the US is still growing even during the off-shoring fad. IMO
off-shoring is a fad - it will settle down into a successful long term
strategy, but at a much lower impact than the last few years of "gold
rush" activity.
<rest of my reply snipped - too contentious, too OT>
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