Re: WebObjects become opensource ?
Re: WebObjects become opensource ?
- Subject: Re: WebObjects become opensource ?
- From: Lachlan Deck <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:01:51 +1000
On 18/09/2009, at 6:44 AM, Jean Pierre Malrieu wrote:
Le 17 sept. 09 à 21:44, Lachlan Deck a écrit :
On 17/09/2009, at 7:01 PM, Pascal Robert wrote:
I get reports from multiple people in France that are saying the
same thing. Based on those reports, it look like most WO devs in
France are/will drop WO in the next 12 months, and France was one
of the biggest WO "market" :-/
On Sep 16, 2009, at 5:14 AM, Mike Nowak wrote:
I don't care particularly if its open source. I just want a road
map or a deprecation date if any.
Yeah, me too
On the opposite, we are giving up on WO because our clients
(French public institutions) want open source solutions.
So doesn't that just require that 'your' solution to their problem
be open source? (Sure - here's our source code - it depends on x,y
libraries to function .. oh and requires non-proprietory mice
too ... and, um, comes at a price... ahh... :) I wouldn't have
thought that libraries in and of themselves solve business
problems ;-)
We are talking about relatively big projects (at least for us more
than 20 million of euros are a lot). These "markets" are more
politically driven than technically driven. Our costumers want to
"rule out" some big players (not for religious reasons, just because
they noticed that bigger companies did not care about users), and
the open source requirement is a way to acheive this. But then, this
cannot be half-done.
Some of the solutions we propose are already written using WO. Our
public costumers offer to repay us (you heard it: pay twice!) to
rewrite them with purely open source libraries.
This might seem crazy to you, and might not apply anywhere else in
the world, by that is what happens here.
And please don't conclude that our client are irrational. Open
source might cost them more at first than choosing highly discounted
solutions from big companies, but in the end, it will be much
cheaper than proprietary solutions.
'Time' will tell :-) But hey, they're paying you so: not to worry.
with regards,
--
Lachlan Deck
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