open source in enterprise level deployments
the discussion about the deployment of open source software in large scale enterprise setups and in the governmental environment makes me sick. every time the argument about missing security and not enterprise level software and so on starts i could just laugh about the idiots telling you the stuff. most of them have no clue that the tools they use day to day to deploy are in fact open source.
what do most large scale enterprise setups look like today? java, all over. ok, how do you serve java on an enterprise level? right, with websphere. ever wondered why you can restart an IBM httpd with apachectl restart? ok, discussed that point, which OS do you use? of course something commercial, solaris? cool, they market their OS as open source in the meantime and there are lots of tools in there that are open source already. shell bash? editor vim?
ok, i just want to state once and for all times. all those ones that state that commercial software is more enterprise level than open source: think before you talk and the best would be to just stop brain vomiting your so called expert knowledge and keep your slimy profit greed for you.
the real challenge with open source is the new concepts that base on know how and service and not on stupid reselling of licences.
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it seems there is someone really angry :)
but you are absolutely right!
also an often seen argument of those people is that you don't get "official support" for open source software. but let's face it, how does official support look like for commercial closed source software? ;)
i would not trust the code more only because i paid for it and at least i can proof open source software by myself for security...
well the support thing is a good point. what do you prefer, a service contract you pay for and in case of a problem (motly a bug) the answer is "thanks for reporting this one, we'll include a patch in the next version" or a "looks like a bug, here is a patch". i go for the no-cost-but-problem-solving apporoach.