Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Nov 24 23:26:22 CST 2011
All absolute excellent products and you have just touched the surface. :-) Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 8:05 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Clearing the decks for MySQL Just a few of the sourceforge projects I use quite regularly: VLC Player, Gimp, Ghostscript, VirtualDub, Inkscape, Audacity, PDFCreator, TightVNC, AngryIPScanner -- Stuart On 24 Nov 2011 at 22:48, jwcolby wrote: > I hear you. OTOH there are success stories including Linux itself. > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > > Reality is what refuses to go away > when you do not believe in it > > On 11/24/2011 8:38 PM, Mark Simms wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com