RE: DBI Module.

From: Ilya \ Sterin (isterin_at_ford.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:50:11 -0400
To: "JupiterHost.Net" <mlists@jupiterhost.net>

I know Tim will kill me for this OT stuff:-)

> > I feel the likely hood of the economy changing and causing
> major issues
> for "big companies" is way more likely than the open source
> community to
> stop supporting and developing.

It's not that the open source community doesn't support, it's that it's an unstructured/unguranteed support structure. Do you guarantee me that if my Linux kernel came crashing in some specific environment that can't be easily debugged on a home computer, that Linus and the team will come running to the rescue? Within 4 hours? I doubt it, Linus might be spending time with his wife and the rest of the team might be on a geek cruise:-)

I'm serious, and I used to think the same way as you, until we sold a few open source products and ran into huge support issues, that were raised before, but we convinced them otherwise. We actualy lost a few clients that way.

>
> To me all the "enterprise level" nonsense is just a bunch of
> big words

Most are, but support and some other legal arrangements are very valid issues.

 

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