Why is it that IT managers, and companies in general, will put up with anything from software that costs millions of euros / dollars (including insecurity, instability, lack of certain features, user unfriendliness, etc.), but refuse to even consider an equivalent piece of open source software, free (as in beer), unless it’s absolutely perfect in all those respects?
If a piece of software was free and is almost perfect, but has a problem, “we must replace it”. If it did cost millions, “we must learn to live with those problems, and hope they’re solved in the next version”.
Morons.
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Amen, Brother.
Totally stupid, but also totally true.
Eu por norma evito falar do que não conheço, regra geral quem não participa no processo de avaliação e decisão, poderá não ter contexto, e ninguém vai perder tempo a explicar porque se decidiu assim. Por isso o melhor é não pensarem nisso e preparem-se para quando forem voçês a decidir não provocarem nos outros idêntica sensação…