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Open Source or Open Season?
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Jonathan Vanian j_vanian@cmcrossroads.com
By Randy Wagner
Vendors will tell you that you get what you pay for. Open source people will tell you they are liberated from the matrix. Who should we believe? Can we get what we need in free tools? Can we build what we need? Are we doomed to the annual tyranny of maintenance fees? The truth is in here somewhere. Answering those questions requires three things: answers, answers, and persistence. The very first answer you need is to the question, “what are my needs?” If I’m a single developer, doing my own thing, I have very different needs from NASA who’s coding for a Mars mission. If I’m using VSS but I want some level of integration with issue tracking, can I get that from an open source tool? What level of reporting functionality do my users need? Can my business users get the data they need from the tool without having to come to IT for a special report? How much parallel development will I do? Do I have offshore resources I have to deal with? Do I have traceability requirements to satisfy Audit? Is there an integration between my testing tool and the issue tracking system?
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