Comments on: Open Source Viability http://www.alstongrove.com/posts/26 Welcome to the throes of my thoughts Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:35:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Rob http://www.alstongrove.com/posts/26#comment-22 Rob Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://maize.dhs.org/wp/?p=26#comment-22 Around here where I work, we use a lot of Open Source. Not because the higher-ups dictate that we do, but because the grunts in the cubicles just go out to SourceForge and grab it. Unfortunately, the place where I work has this defiling notion that they shouldn't have to spend a dime on developer tools. The last license that was purchased for the whole IT department for a development tool was version 9 of UltraEdit. And only 25 licenses at that (More than 50 people probably use it on a daily basis). Of course, UltraEdit is now upto version 10 or higher. Most of use now use Eclipse for the majority of our daily coding tasks and UltraEdit for those times when you want to just fire up a quick text editor. I've dabbled with jEdit some, but having Eclipse, WebLogic and jEdit all running at the same time can cause one to rip our their eyes because of the resource hogs that are the 3 JVMs that are all competing for the same resources. Will the Apache/Jakarta's J2EE App Server overtake JBoss? JBoss has been around and under development for quite some time. It'll be interesting to see what happens with that. Around here where I work, we use a lot of Open Source. Not because the higher-ups dictate that we do, but because the grunts in the cubicles just go out to SourceForge and grab it.

Unfortunately, the place where I work has this defiling notion that they shouldn’t have to spend a dime on developer tools. The last license that was purchased for the whole IT department for a development tool was version 9 of UltraEdit. And only 25 licenses at that (More than 50 people probably use it on a daily basis). Of course, UltraEdit is now upto version 10 or higher. Most of use now use Eclipse for the majority of our daily coding tasks and UltraEdit for those times when you want to just fire up a quick text editor.

I’ve dabbled with jEdit some, but having Eclipse, WebLogic and jEdit all running at the same time can cause one to rip our their eyes because of the resource hogs that are the 3 JVMs that are all competing for the same resources.

Will the Apache/Jakarta’s J2EE App Server overtake JBoss? JBoss has been around and under development for quite some time. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with that.

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