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I'd rather use an OSS solution but pay someone else to host and maintain it, that way if they shut down or whatever I can just copy my data and worst case run i
by jiggy2011 12y ago
I'd rather use an OSS solution but pay someone else to host and maintain it, that way if they shut down or whatever I can just copy my data and worst case run it myself.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoDoes it need to be an OSS solution as long as the data can be exported at will into a standards compliant format?
- jiggy2011 12y agoYes, because I want to keep the same software and feature set if at all possible.
- rmc 12y ago"Standards compliant format" can be misleading. Sure, an app might give you a zip file of CSV files (which is as 'standard' and 'humanily readable' as you can get), but that doesn't mean you'll be able to import it into another tool/software. The data model could be completly different.
- eli 12y agoGood point... but likewise: just because an app is OSS doesn't mean it's data is portable.
- rmc 12y agoIt does. You can run any version of any OSS programme with or without any custom patches you write. You can obviously import that zip-of-csvs into that programme.
- eli 12y agoMaybe I phrased that poorly. All data that can be retrieved or viewed can also be exported with enough effort. But OSS doesn't guarantee that process will always be easy and hosted, closed-source doesn't guarantee it will be hard.