XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Elliotte Harold scripsit:

> I'm certainly willing to sell non-free XOM licenses for the right price. 

You might want to say so on the XOM site, then.

> What a lot of component vendors and analysts don't seem to realize is 
> that expenses are not flexible. Even if using a component would save 
> $500 or $5000 vs. writing it from scratch, very few companies, if any, 
> are set up to layoff a programmer for the couple of days it would cost 
> to pay for a pre-written component. They can't take money out of the 
> salary and benefits pot to put it in the third party component pot.  The 
> only thing they're set up to do is completely replace programmers with 
> lower cost programmers overseas.

Sometimes buying components can be disguised as consulting, especially
if the company programmers aren't 100% ready to hit the ground running
with the component, as is typically the case.  Sell 'em a day of your
time and throw in the non-libre license gratis.

(I started to write "throw in the non-free license free", but stopped
just in time.)

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