Ridiculous, a proprietary software development firm conducts a study on what is ostensibly a huge threat to their income and -- surprise, surprise -- the outcome is in their favour.
BEA Systems study of 1000 software developers has concluded that: "The majority of European software developers are concerned about using open source software due to a perceived lack of reliable support".
Quite honestly, so what? Where's the Microsoft comparison, the other side of the coin? I'd bet my life that there are even more concerns with those products. (Ok, maybe not my life. I'm not that keen.)
Love to know how they got in touch with the thousand developers, if, perchance, it was through their own business dealings. Ho-hum. Can we have some unbiased studies please?
Actually, bugger that. Who needs studies? We want progress. Why do proprietary software makers always have such trouble with that concept?
(Yes, that was a rhetorical question.)
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Thursday, January 20, 2005
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