The acronym ISV stands for Independent Software Vendor. Historically, independence was important to protect customers from the proprietary lock-in associated with third-party components such as hardware or system software. A greater choice of interoperable components gave customers greater flexibility to procure and assemble a system that met their needs. Microsoft alleviated some of this concern with the Windows platform because customers could always choose multiple hardware providers when selecting applications that ran on Windows. Of course, an application that only runs on Windows isn't exactly an 'independent' application, but customers seem to accept hardware independence as sufficient freedom. (More on Microsoft and Windows later.)
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Infernoz commented on 11 Jul 2006
IMHO this is just more Troll Hype, all this appliance and Linux is sooo wonderful talk is deceptive. Linux requires Unix admin and compiler skills to customise, not a trivial task if you are starting fresh. Windows can be extensively customised, provided you use the embedded version toolkits, some free toolkits are even available to customise a retail Windows OS as an embedded OS! I do all my coding in non-OS dependant Java with embedded OSS libraries in the deployed jar, so my apps can run on any OS which supports Java 1.4.2 or higher and are trivial to setup, so all this appliance bla is irrelevant and costly nonsense.
BTW: I adblock all your ads and the damned annoying pop-ups/floating_layers, because you went OTT on adverts. The advert products tend to be overpriced bloatware anyhow, so I'm not missing anything. I use OSS as much as possible and only rarely need to buy software, it's a struggle to get my employer to, anyhow.
NB: Altova are dire their XML products may look good on the surface, but their really suck when you see how broken and expensive they are e.g. XML Spy is not standards compliant, can't handle large documents and is much too expensive, and their free XML library is garbage too! oXygen 7.2 is MUCH better than XML Spy, is properly standards compliant, is much cheaper that XML Spy, it spotted some glaring mistakes in my XSD which XML Spy didn't see and is written in Java, so is platform portable too!
mark wrote: Echoing the other commenter, InfoSolve does not provide open source. They provide source code for things they build on top of OSS to people who pay them. There is a distribution of source to the payer, so it's really a source code license. I think the magazine should do a little more homework before...
Lewis Cunningham wrote: On a related note, I recently created a database survey to learn some database usage patterns between commercial databases and OSDBs.
I plan to release the data openly, as well as my initial analysis, upon completion of the survey. I would love it if you and your readers would participate. It's j...
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