Comments on: When is Open Source not Enough? http://www.electric-cloud.com/blog/2009/07/08/when-is-open-source-not-enough/ This is your source for private development cloud best practices and technical tips and tricks for Electric Cloud solutions Thu, 03 May 2012 01:47:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anders Wallgren http://www.electric-cloud.com/blog/2009/07/08/when-is-open-source-not-enough/#comment-46 Anders Wallgren Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:51:47 +0000 http://blog.electric-cloud.com/?p=404#comment-46 Laurent, Thank you for your comment. My response to your comment is straightforward: I am not forwarding the propostition against which you argue. In fact, I agree with you: there's nothing inherently superior in either proprietary or open source solutions. If open source solves my problem, I, too, will choose it every time. The point I am making is much more narrowly focused: currently available open source tools for build/test management and acceleration are not up to the task of more complex enterprise scenarios. The article talks about how we work with customers to identify requirements that go beyond what today's free tools can do. Laurent,

Thank you for your comment.

My response to your comment is straightforward: I am not forwarding the propostition against which you argue. In fact, I agree with you: there’s nothing inherently superior in either proprietary or open source solutions. If open source solves my problem, I, too, will choose it every time.

The point I am making is much more narrowly focused: currently available open source tools for build/test management and acceleration are not up to the task of more complex enterprise scenarios. The article talks about how we work with customers to identify requirements that go beyond what today’s free tools can do.

]]> By: Laurent Rochette http://www.electric-cloud.com/blog/2009/07/08/when-is-open-source-not-enough/#comment-45 Laurent Rochette Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:43:40 +0000 http://blog.electric-cloud.com/?p=404#comment-45 I'm sorry but I will disagree with your assessment. I'm a EC Accelerator customer but the decision to purchase has more to do with the quality of the tool and not with the fact it's open source or not. I think you have a great product but proprietary close code is not an argument, specially when you post on Wordpress, use MySql as your default DB, run on Red Hat, ... The world runs on Open Source today and I will choose a good Open Source tool/application over a bad proprietary one any day. I’m sorry but I will disagree with your assessment. I’m a EC Accelerator customer but the decision to purchase has more to do with the quality of the tool and not with the fact it’s open source or not.

I think you have a great product but proprietary close code is not an argument, specially when you post on WordPress, use MySql as your default DB, run on Red Hat, …

The world runs on Open Source today and I will choose a good Open Source tool/application over a bad proprietary one any day.

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