Re: SBCL just turned 1.0!

On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:11:05 -0500, Ken Tilton wrote:

I would not want to depend on a closed compiler nor a closed Cells.
Maybe you would take that chance - but I will not. :)

You forget, I am the one who knows how to assess vendors. :)

When I listened (back in '99) to the Franz sales rep raving about how
solid AllegroStore was having just been stretched to the limits by
customer XXX and a lot of issues resolved, I knew two things: AStore was
still in beta, I would break it, and (OK, three) Franz would fix it
fast. I had actually been thru this with a mainframe RDB for VAX/VMS:
find a bug, make a reproducible (usually the hard part since they do not
want your whole project) get a patch the same day. Franz was as good,
amazing really, and just interfacing with their people over bugs gave me
a rare warm fuzzy from associating with engineers as good and committed
as they.

What makes you think an Open Source company cannot have this?

* Canonical
* MySQL
* Sun (Java recently, OpenOffice and OpenSolaris)
* IBM
* RedHat
* a company in my little hometown: http://ez.no/
* ..and many more


These aren't small hobby-based projects with poor support. This has only
benefits because there can be many supporters of one piece of software.

--
Lars Rune Nøstdal
http://nostdal.org/

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