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["Andrew C. Oliver" <acoliver AT buni.org>]

Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2007, at 10:40 AM, zman wrote:
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> For an individual maybe, but not for a company, where the total cost  
> of ownership is more important than the license cost. We use  
> Atlassian's bug tracking software as well, and their software not  
> only makes our entire company more productive, but in the years we've  
> used it have never encountered a single bug.  We've filed some  
> requests for new features, but never a bug.
Uhh...JIRA has had some major well-known bugs from memory leaks
to connection leaks on high volume sites...  Not  that it is  *bad* as all
software has bugs (I don't care for JIRA as a matter of preference) but
that it has not been bugless....no software is.
> For software that employees use everyday I'm much more interested in  
> efficiency and capability than price.  For example, my company  
> recently spent 6 months trying to switch to using an open source CRM  
> system.   After dedicating an engineer half time for six months  
> posting on the forums, fixing bugs, etc, we had to pull the plug and  
> go with a commercial system that took two days to implement. Cost of  
> the open source package: $25,000 in salary. Cost of the commercial  
> system: $2,000.
>
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>          -- michael at czeiszperger dot org, Chapel Hill, NC
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