Comments on: Writing a Presentation on Dynamics of Open Source… http://erik.weibust.net/2008/09/17/writing-a-presentation-on-dynamics-of-open-source/ random crap from the mouth of erik weibust Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:49:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Erik Weibust http://erik.weibust.net/2008/09/17/writing-a-presentation-on-dynamics-of-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-3640 Erik Weibust Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:30:05 +0000 http://erik.weibust.net/?p=936#comment-3640 Craig and Tim, Thanks for your input. It was all valid and will definitely be incorporated into the presentation. Erik Craig and Tim,

Thanks for your input. It was all valid and will definitely be incorporated into the presentation.

Erik

]]> By: Tim http://erik.weibust.net/2008/09/17/writing-a-presentation-on-dynamics-of-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-3639 Tim Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:35:16 +0000 http://erik.weibust.net/?p=936#comment-3639 The down side is that it takes a development team with a solid understanding of Java and a certain skill level to be effective. There are a million videos, tutorials and books which can teach about any dumb VB programmer how to write a website in ASP.NET. There is not the same ease of adoption for the open source tools, especially the complicated stuff. So good teams can be extremely successful with an open source stack, while mediocre teams should probably stick to the easy, vendor-supported stuff. The down side is that it takes a development team with a solid understanding of Java and a certain skill level to be effective. There are a million videos, tutorials and books which can teach about any dumb VB programmer how to write a website in ASP.NET. There is not the same ease of adoption for the open source tools, especially the complicated stuff.

So good teams can be extremely successful with an open source stack, while mediocre teams should probably stick to the easy, vendor-supported stuff.

]]> By: Craig Walls http://erik.weibust.net/2008/09/17/writing-a-presentation-on-dynamics-of-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-3638 Craig Walls Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:01:13 +0000 http://erik.weibust.net/?p=936#comment-3638 In giving a balanced presentation, be sure to mention that O/S is a mixed bag. Some projects are solid (Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat) and some are crap (I won't mention any names here, but oh how I want to)...and there's a wealth of projects that fall somewhere in between. The same is true of support...some have great support, both from the community and from the developers. Others have no community and only one developer who doesn't have time to answer your e-mails. (Note that the quality of the project is a different dynamic than support...I've seen some solid projects with no support and vice-versa). In giving a balanced presentation, be sure to mention that O/S is a mixed bag. Some projects are solid (Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat) and some are crap (I won’t mention any names here, but oh how I want to)…and there’s a wealth of projects that fall somewhere in between. The same is true of support…some have great support, both from the community and from the developers. Others have no community and only one developer who doesn’t have time to answer your e-mails. (Note that the quality of the project is a different dynamic than support…I’ve seen some solid projects with no support and vice-versa).

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