OT: Editorial on Corporate use of Open Source Software

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 13:41:54 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00309B69.20010521132616@fatcity.com>

This is a very interesting editorial on corporate use of OSS.

http://www.dmreview.com/editorial/dmdirect/dmdirect_article.cfm?EdID=3436&issue=051801&record=1

Some may consider this off topic for an Oracle mailing list, but I believe that those folks are in the minority.

Some very good points are made as to the low cost of OSS apps and the support of them.

I used the low cost aspect several years ago to sell my then boss on using Perl for our reporting systems rather than purchase SQR.

My reason for wanting it was that SQR was rather limited in many respects and simply did not have the capabilities of Perl. We were able to make templates for reports and let our Oracle Forms contractors use them immediately to start reporting in perl. ( they also knew C which helped quite a bit. )

I disagree with one statement to the effect that you will not find as many bells and whistles in OSS as in commercial software. Personally, I often consider that a feature, and have found many open source tools that are easily capable of doing most of what I want, which is at least as good as most commercial software.

Jared
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