Evaluating Open Source

Posted by michael on Tuesday June 1, 2004 @10:08AM from the but-what-about-phase-2? dept.

CowboyRobot writes "Jordan Hubbard cofounded FreeBSD and now oversees the Darwin implementation of BSD for Apple. He describes open source as 'finally being openly acknowledged as a commercial engineering force-multiplier and important option for avoiding significant software development costs.' And thus, companies need to know how to evaluate open source engineering as an option for them. In a new article titled Open Source to the Core, Hubbard goes through a typical open source adoption process."

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Re:a few extra notes from someone using OSS by chris_mahan · 2004-06-01 10:48 · Score: 4, Funny

It helps to attract real programming talent too:

Shop A: Pays $65K for a VB and ASP .NET developer to work on Win 2003 and MSSQL/IIS.

Shop B: Pays $65K for Python developer to work on Debian with PostgreSQL/Apache.

Who do you think will get the better programmer?

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