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Free Software, Get What You Pay For?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the never-had-to-look-for-a-refund dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Xooglers blog is running an interesting article on how big businesses may start out running free software but there is always the continued question of 'Should we go with something "real"?' at some point in their evolution. How often are technologies like PHP, Perl, and MySQL being pushed out once startups get managers who know nothing about the technology and only worry about name brands?"

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  1. Re:with a DBMS, quality is more objective by neillewis · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Transactions make applications *fail* reliably, they don't make them *work* reliably. They simplify things at one level by bundling them up and abstracting them, so when they do fail it's hard to know exactly why they failed. The dreaded 'we can't do what you want at this time, try later' horribly vague error message is the result. Transactions are no replacement for serious fault analysis.