[...]
My original sentiment still stands -- if you have the money, but don't
have the skills, and don't need it yesterday, it might be better in the
long-term to fund an extension of a good OSS project than to take the
easy way out and buy a COTS package.
Absolutely.
It appears that Open
Interestingly enough, in our efforts with Open Technology Development
and the Department of Defense (US), the Navy made that determination
that OSS was COTS - and therefore needed to be considered on an equal
footing with proprietary solutions for Navy acquisitions.
Mark
On Apr 27, 2008,
On 4/27/08, Arnulf Christl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
My original sentiment still stands -- if you have the money, but don't
have the skills, and don't need it yesterday, it might be better in the
long-term to fund an extension of a good OSS project than to take the
easy way out
P Kishor wrote:
On 4/27/08, Arnulf Christl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
My original sentiment still stands -- if you have the money, but don't
have the skills, and don't need it yesterday, it might be better in the
long-term to fund an extension of a good OSS project than to take the
2008/4/27 Mark Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Interestingly enough, in our efforts with Open Technology Development and
the Department of Defense (US), the Navy made that determination that OSS
was COTS - and therefore needed to be considered on an equal footing with
proprietary solutions for Navy
I think that is probably another aspect us proprietary experienced people do
not remember, theres a ton of stuff I dont need in ArcView that Im paying
for
What I do need from it unfortunately comes from the whole spectrum of
its modules / levels and extensions, which is simply put, not
On 4/26/08, Andre Grobler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that is probably another aspect us proprietary experienced people do
not remember, there's a ton of stuff I don't need in ArcView that I'm paying
for… What I do need from it unfortunately comes from the whole spectrum of
its