Re: (wtf) Top 20 Open Source Software Projects in the Enterprise

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> The reality is, regardless of what all of us Pg zealots would like to
> think, is that MySQL is now buzzword compliant.

There's a whole lot of people who think of the standard for web
application development to be based on the LAMP stack.  They're
immediately comfortable that they're using an industry standard and
therefore well supported/supportable solution by adopting that approach.
If the current developer dissapears it will be no problem to find another
one just like them at a reasonable rate.

Many of these people become much less comfortable when designs that
deviate from that standard set are proposed.  Now you have to give a
compelling reason why the benefits of deviating from what everybody else
is doing are worth introducing the risk you'll end up needing skills that
may not be available.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD