RDBMS license costs and Open Source

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One of the basic tenants of SE is that 90% of the cost of software "projects" (development) is in the maintenance phase. IOW all the work of designing, developing and deploying only amount to 10% of the lifecycle cost. So if you doubled your project dollars, you could have 10 separate (and concurrent) development projects competing to be chosen as the 1 project to be deployed.

This of course gives you 10 times the chances to "get it right" the first time. With the probability that a project will fail being so high, this approach would seem to be "best".

But other costs of having 10 development teams + hardware would make this impractical. BUT would it make sense to add 10% to the cost of a project to have TWO concurrent teams developing? That doubles your chances of success at a pittance of cost.

So what I am trying to say is this: You should always have both a FOSS and a "traditional" development team working on every project. When that last "gate" comes up before you deploy - you can choose which one to go with. I call this the "Put your money where your mouth is" methodology. If Windoze or Noracle fulfills the requirements best - go with that. Pretty simple.

Posted by: Roger Ramjet   Posted on: 03/09/09  (Edited: 03/09/2009 @ 05:38) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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