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At some point in the decision process you should be weighing the cost of buying software/support vs. the cost of developing it in-house. Highcharts is not expen
by dmethvin 12y ago
At some point in the decision process you should be weighing the cost of buying software/support vs. the cost of developing it in-house. Highcharts is not expensive compared to developing something similar yourself, unless you have the luxury of a loose schedule and are being paid at something like $10 an hour.
I think the reason these "cost concerns" are being expressed is that a programmer isn't trained to weigh these things objectively. It's like going directly to a surgeon with an ailment and asking their recommended course of action. Their expertise is surgery, so their resolution is more likely to involve a knife.
- chaostheory 12y ago> Highcharts is not expensive compared to developing something similar yourself, Here's what you guys keep ignoring: there's other open source alternatives that are free. I'm not helping develop them beyond giving bug reports.
- sanderjd 12y agoWhat you keep ignoring is that highcharts is way better than those alternatives, and that many people really like the simplicity of paying people for great products.
- chaostheory 12y agoThat may have been true 4-6 years ago. In 2014, that's no longer true.
- Hansi 12y agoThat's one of those "It depends" situations. I've reviewed most of the charting libraries that have been posted in this thread and although yes they have come an extremely long way from 4 years ago when we picked Highcharts; all of them would still need a lot of work from our end to add extensions to be able to build all the charts we have in our products using built-in Highcharts options. But like I said it depends, a startup might not want to pay that money but that $3000 for 5 dev Highstock license is way less than the salaries needed for 5 devs to write the custom extensions in order to use something else to meet our needs.
- sanderjd 12y agoNot sure which part isn't true in 2014 - that highcharts is way better than the competitors or that some people like the simplicity of paying money for things? For me, the first is less true than it was 4-6 years ago but still true and the second is more true than it was 4-6 years ago.
- dmethvin 12y agoI'm sure your coding skills are great. Thanks for the downvote.
- chaostheory 12y agoI didn't downvote you. I'm not sure you realize this but you can't downvote anyone in the same thread as you - at least I can't.