In article <4684203.I19rgE2UqS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> Well, you can always start a business small with Fedora+LAMP (free of
>>> charage), then grow and mature towards Red Hat+JBoss.
>>
>> Or you can start with JBoss, and then not have to rewrite everything when
>> the business grows.
>
> Big initial investment (e.g. R&D) is something that only large
> companies are able to afford. The return on investment (ROI) can be
> tolerated even if the product, or Web sites, or businesses needs a few
> iterations to show some fruits. XBox 360 comes to mind. 4 billion in
> losses so far?
>
> The migration costs might be worth it in the case of JBoss/RHat.
> You just need to find the balance, taking into consideration chance
> of success, costs of software, migration/s, etc.
What big initial investment? JBoss is free, and pretty much anything you
can do in PHP, you can do in a servlet, giving you better performance, and
simpler, cleaner, easier-to-maintain code.
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--Tim Smith
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