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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> BEA blends open-source and proprietary in long-term move
>
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>| BEA is involved with various open-source communities and uses
>| these communities' products in the software solutions it offers
>| its customers. If the work has already been done, and the software is
>| stable and functional, there is no point in pressuring the client to
>| use a proprietary equivalent, says Roth.
> `----
>
> http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/70D4842560F6D630CC2571B20013887F
BEA are trying to hold up their proprietary model in the face of the GPL
and open-source software. It might work, for some time, but I think is
an ultimately doomed strategy. I presume that they have a longer-term
play to survive by providing expertise?
--
| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names
the streets after them.
-- Bill Vaughn
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