Re: [ossig] FOSSCON 2005

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 13:03, Dinesh Nair wrote:
> On 26/01/2005 11:23 Ditesh said the following:

> in the goal to create more developers, the thrust, imho, should be centred 
> on the bosses on why an open source dev model should be employed, as per 
> your assertion below:
> 
> >  the
> > decision to foss in house code has seen significant returns. Our code 
> > now works correctly on a larger number of platforms  and environments 
> > than it did before, which increases the value of the code and our 
> > ability to sell it to prospective clients.

Unfortunately this is more than what I can say for some companies.
The larger companies which has the $$$ to shell out, prefers to use MS
apps/tools because they get support at the call/email.

Speaking to colleagues about that, any issues not able to be solved
in-house gets diverted to MS KL, then escalated to MS China. (it seems)

They pay for the sort of support.

RedHat for one also has these same sort of support although I have no
experience of how well it is.

What I do know is, an email out to a mailing list solves most of the
problems one faces. But not _all_ problems gets a solution. When push
comes to shove, big companies prefer to shell out the moolahs for this
peace of mind.

OSS community needs to make adoption of these OSS tools more wodespread
so that it will benefit everyone in general.

/my take anyway

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Ow Mun Heng
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