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The Death of Licensed Enterprise Software?
tfsm writes "Andy Singleton wrote a short, interesting article about the looming death of traditionally licensed, proprietary, enterprise software over at The IT Manager's Journal. In it, he talks about the declining revenues of software giants such as Siebel. There are several causes, but one, he suggests, is erosion from Open Source offerings."
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You don't run a business, do you? Any business person can tell you that this is 100% wrong.
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ermm.. i have run more businesses, and been involved in more large-scale enterprise software development, than most.
and this is in fact the reason why i say: roll your own.
software is not hard. its only made hard by those who would profit from the difficult nature of it...
Unless you're a software company, software is just a tool like any others.
even if you are a software company, software is still just a tool like any others. if your business is selling pigs, and you need software to control the sale of those pigs, it is far better for you to have your own, purpose-built, customized software for the selling of pigs, than it is to 'copy someone elses model'.
it shouldn't be more expensive (even though, in the past, it has been). and the point of this article is that, in fact, software is getting easier, or else there wouldn't be so much open source software supplanting 'old-school solutions' in the first place
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Jesus, you're such a lying loser. OMFG.