[Info-vax] Beyond Open Source

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-05-10 16:34:42 +0000, David Froble said:

> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2015-05-10 04:32:03 +0000, IanD said:
> 
>>> I'd love to see an event logger like windows has on OpenVMS :-)
> 
> Well, I personally find it severely lacking in necessary details.
> 
>> Microsoft very much understands the enterprise.
> 
> Yeah, they understand where the big bucks can be had, and they've 
> brainwashed enough people to make it easy to harvest those bucks ..

Windows solves the problems that many folks have.  If you have found or 
have created a better solution for those folks, well, have at...

> What I don't understand is this aversion to independently implemented 
> procedures and such.

Your particular market for your products and services are comprised of 
folks that have that aversion.  There are barriers in most areas and 
most applications.  These might be certifications or reviews or 
specialized knowledge or experience or available time or indemnity or 
whatever.    Now as for your own aversions, you probably don't really 
want to maintain your own BASIC compiler or your own run-time 
frameworks, if the commodity choices and the available choices meet or 
variously exceed your requirements.  If the available solutions do not 
and if the work is to your benefit, then certainly roll your own 
solutions.

> One size doesn't fit all.

True.   The folks that don't fit or don't want or can't use or can't 
reasonably port to the standard solutions almost always end up paying 
more, though.

> If someone designs and developes something that precisely fits their 
> needs, why is this so much worse than generic stuff?

Usually because it's much more expensive to develop and maintain, and — 
unless you keep spending — what you developed eventually falls behind 
expectations.  Spreading and/or sharing the costs for what are common 
functions is usually preferable.  It can also mean you get a better 
option for less money.  I've written network communications stacks, 
starting from the Ethernet frame level — doing multicast notifications 
was really useful for a particular application I was working on.  But 
writing a network stack is just not nearly as common an application 
requirement anymore, as there are decent alternatives.



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