On 16 September 2010 23:55, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
The fear and loathing comes from experience. Lots of effort is 'wasted' on implementing proprietary solutions. They may give short term advantages in user-experience, however that user-experience is then tied to the release schedule and whims of the vendor.
And most importantly: when it breaks, you're fucked.
The same can happen with open source, but you're much less likely to have a vendor do it to you as part of their plan to brutalise your last pennies out of you.
(so, anyone else work with Solaris and Java and watch the Oracle takeover in sheer horror?)
- d.