Re: (wtf) Top 20 Open Source Software Projects in the Enterprise

Greg Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>> The reality is, regardless of what all of us Pg zealots would like to
>> think, is that MySQL is now buzzword compliant.
>
> There's a whole lot of people who think of the standard for web
> application development to be based on the LAMP stack. They're
> immediately comfortable that they're using an industry standard and
> therefore well supported/supportable solution by adopting that approach.
> If the current developer dissapears it will be no problem to find
> another one just like them at a reasonable rate.

Yep, sad but yep.

>
> Many of these people become much less comfortable when designs that
> deviate from that standard set are proposed. Now you have to give a
> compelling reason why the benefits of deviating from what everybody else
> is doing are worth introducing the risk you'll end up needing skills
> that may not be available.

Again, yep :)

Joshua D. Drake

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