On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:56:35 -0600, Chris Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, that's what I mean, there is not as much coordination between > projects. Of course Open Source development has projects leaders and > stuff. And of course I've no clue what the NDS or the SuSE team is > working on right now as I have my own projects to worry about. But my > point does not have to do with having a CEO on top. Consider 2 things: > > 1)Having a whole QA Testing branch in your company that will make sure > everything works with everything (I should know that, I have done a > little bit of that testing myself, and I have friends in the Engineering > QA team). If not, ask Dr. Knutson of the CS Dept., he worked as Testing > manager here a few years ago. > > 2)There is a CIO that takes decision on standards for the company (if > you want to know, Novell has officially adopted Firefox 0.9 as the > official browser, and we test our web applications against it more than > with IE, Mozilla Navigator and other browsers). This influences what > technologies will be pushed by a company and will determine eventually > what components, programs, libraries, technologies, etc are expected to > have in the box when running our software. For example, in the case of a > Mac, you can almost for sure expect to have MacOS, Photoshop and > Dreamweaver and an expected set of libraries. In Windows or Linux, since > there are so many third-party vendors/Open Source development groups > making things for it, it is less certain what they have in their boxes > and what versions of a specific library will work with your software and > which newer versions won't.
You mean like how Q/A labs at RedHat make sure OpenOffice.org integrates well with GNOME? All I'm saying is that the conditions are really the same whether the product is commercial or open-source, and many open source projects undergo precisely the same rigorous testing that commercial products are supposed to receive. Have a look at forge.novell.com for a many open source projects that are tested right there in your labs alongside commercial products. I'm not saying that open source is better tested for integration I'm saying that the development model has very little to do with the integration process and open source is really just a development model. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
