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Everyone seems to be counting the initial cost in monetary terms. What's the overall cost of pinning your company's technology to a single supplier? With a FO
by sadiq 19y ago
Everyone seems to be counting the initial cost in monetary terms.
What's the overall cost of pinning your company's technology to a single supplier?
With a FOSS-based solution (like LAMP/Ruby/etc..) you know you'll always have access to the tools required. The same really can't be said for an MS-stack (especially with products constantly being added and removed, and support expiring for old ones).
- DarrenStuart 19y agoYou are never going to lose the tools to develop stuff. MS still supports asp classic on the lastest build of iis etc The thing with the MS stack is it improves every single release and gets stronger at a better pace. I am a developer that makes my living using MS tech to build sites and they make my life easier with each update to their platform. You are never tied to a platform in these days, if you decide that you want to change platform then you hire the talent and change.
- sadiq 19y ago"You are never tied to a platform in these days, if you decide that you want to change platform then you hire the talent and change." Surely that's a cost though? Not necessarily a minor for one for a startup.
- DarrenStuart 19y agoyeah very true, but I would hope that this would not be at startup stage but serveral years down the line when you can afford it.