Comments on: Open Source Software: Should You Bet Your Career On It? http://dltj.org/article/bet-your-career-on-opensource/ We're Disrupted, We're Librarians, and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:48:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Colinhttp://dltj.org/article/bet-your-career-on-opensource/comment-page-1/#comment-132340 Colin Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:36:17 +0000 http://dltj.org/2006/07/bet-your-career-on-opensource/#comment-132340 Fascinating article, thanks.My Employer asked me to compare and contrast an open source solution with other proprietary software (this was for Intranet Web Editing and Contact Management Systems). The conclusion I came to was that open source, if tried and tested, was more economically viable, but poor quality open source was more trouble than it's worth! But that conclusion was reached, as you suggested, by standard analysis techniques to the business case, and not some hypothetical battle between the theory of open source and proprietary software. Fascinating article, thanks.

My Employer asked me to compare and contrast an open source solution with other proprietary software (this was for Intranet Web Editing and Contact Management Systems). The conclusion I came to was that open source, if tried and tested, was more economically viable, but poor quality open source was more trouble than it’s worth! But that conclusion was reached, as you suggested, by standard analysis techniques to the business case, and not some hypothetical battle between the theory of open source and proprietary software.

]]> By: Open Source in Libraries at ebybloghttp://dltj.org/article/bet-your-career-on-opensource/comment-page-1/#comment-2422 Open Source in Libraries at ebyblog Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:10:52 +0000 http://dltj.org/2006/07/bet-your-career-on-opensource/#comment-2422 [...] And then go ahead and read Open Source Software: Should You Bet Your Career On It? over at Disruptive Library Technology Jester. One of the take home’s is that the problem is the evaluation of projects and not necessarily oss vs commercial. The ALA article touched on this but this one goes more in depth. The ending quote: It’s the thing few organizations understand or are willing to accept because they don’t trust their own people to research and apply solutions without the mythical crutch of a vendor. [...] [...] And then go ahead and read Open Source Software: Should You Bet Your Career On It? over at Disruptive Library Technology Jester. One of the take home’s is that the problem is the evaluation of projects and not necessarily oss vs commercial. The ALA article touched on this but this one goes more in depth. The ending quote: It’s the thing few organizations understand or are willing to accept because they don’t trust their own people to research and apply solutions without the mythical crutch of a vendor. [...]

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