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Open source keeps your options open
Mule project founder Ross Mason has an article running over on Dr. Dobbs called "Five Ways Vendors Gouge Customers on Integration."
1. Up-Front Coding, Proprietary Toolkits
2. Astronomical Licensing Costs
3. Ongoing Services/Support Costs
4. Getting Locked Into a Prescribed Approach
5. Feature Overshot
And while integration is clearly an expensive pain, the five points he elucidates are applicable to pretty much any market segment dominated by proprietary vendors.
Posted by Dave Rosenberg on October 30, 2006 07:38 PM
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