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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re:OT: Editorial on Corporate use of Open Source Software
Jared,
While this is a little off topic, it is on topic at the same time. How many posts have there been on this list ranting about Oracle's license and support fees? More than I care to think of. But at the same time the author, Frank Byrum, is a principle at Great Bridge Software. He was at the NorthEast Oracle Users Group not too many meetings ago. His life blood is supporting PostGres SQL, so I doubt he is totally unbiased.
On the whole, I like the open software model and the "shareware" model of acquiring software. Sure it sometimes does not have that nice gui interface, but it does have a functional way of getting the job done. And sometimes one will find a much nicer interface than what we get from the commercial world. What I find upsetting though is that some software, PostGres being one of them, that does not have an equal functionality to the commercial stuff. In a DBMS way, PostGres in it's latest from Great Bridge still does not have tablespaces or partitioning like Oracle so that we can minimize the downtime & repair required.
Will OSS take the battle field by 2004, well maybe and maybe not. Something to look forward to.
Dick Goulet
____________________Reply Separator____________________ Author: Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com> Date: 5/21/2001 1:26 PM
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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