Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Tue Nov 15 02:50:00 CST 2011
Shamil, Of course you need to evaluate what product you are building to decide what the cost vs. benefits are. However, I would just like to add that Qt is an excellent development platform and, not only that, but it is also natively cross platform (without being java! ha!). But there are, of course, many benefits to using Microsofts "platform" of tools. The unfortunate truth is that some applications still need to be made native (or close to it) and Microsoft still has a stranglehold in the desktop market, so going in that direction can still make a lot of sense. That's the world we live in now though. No longer is there a simple solution to everything, but many different angles to approach a problem and you need to be well versed enough to know which is best to take and what the pros/cons are. - Hans On 2011-11-14, at 11:28 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote: > Jim, John at all, > > That's is an interesting discussion. > But did you ever try to compare development and support costs of > > MS SQL + .NET vs. mySQL + ...? > > I must note I know almost nothing about Linux development tools, but I have worked in the past for a long time on IBM360/370 and PDP11 RSX-11M so JCL, command line, and macro-assembler (especially great for IBM360/370) and PL./1 and and pure C or C++ or Pascal development with file systems or network (CODASYL) or relational databases without rich backend-level data definition and manipulation tool - I have my own experience to evaluate how much time all that development takes... > > .Now take > > C# 4.0 (VS2010) + MS SQL with T-SQL with SPs and UDF vs. mySQL + ... > > - wouldn't MS SQL license costs be covered manifold by higher Linux development and support costs? > > And I'm not talking/meaning Web site development where becoming standards HTML5 + CSS3 + JavaScript would make Windows and Linux development and support costs comparable(?) I'm talking about development of desktop custom business applications... > > Thank you. > > -- Shamil > > > 15 ноября 2011, 08:13 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>: >> John: >> >> All I can say is talk to Hans as he has made it his career to work with >> Linux systems (about 10 years now) and I am sure he would help in the case >> that you ever became completely stuck. >> >> It is nice of me to volunteer his services like that but he will understand. >> ;-) >> >> To be honest, Linux is not as difficult as it first looks. My next client is >> asking for an inexpensive alternative to their current Windows system as the >> prices, for the same, have slowly crept beyond their ability to pay. I have >> suggested Linux and they are currently reviewing it and so far they have >> encounter no real reasons to stay put. (I am paid a flat rate so >> implementation will not be any more expensive than the current contract.) >> >> They have already, cautiously moved their MS Office to Open Office and have >> found they had little trouble adjusting. >> >> Jim >> >> ) > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com