Mark Simms
marksimms at verizon.net
Thu Nov 24 19:38:11 CST 2011
My comment is regarding the whole "open source" initiative. This is somewhat targeted to MARIADB. Browse sourceforge.net sometime. When I searched using "Excel" as a keyword....this came up in the first page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ta-lib/ 4 YEARS OLD. "The age is the key here". FOUR YEARS ?!! There are so many "open source" initiatives that have died in the past 10 years, than American programmers that have been effectively outsourced. Sourceforge truly depicts the risk of being in the software business. At least in the USA. Otherwise, you'll get hardy laughs from executives at WiPro, HCL, Cognizant Technologies, etc. Don't get me wrong: go with MARIADB..... Just beware of the risks of your "investment" in time and other resources. My explorations on sourceforge have been a true "WAKE UP" call.