Re: Not technical: strategy against competition ?

[David E. Nelson]

I couldn't agree more with Tim.

A number of months ago I needed to be able to define a class based upon the 
model of h/w for Sun hosts.  No problem as I added the code to the CFEngine src 
(which allowed me to use the functionality that day) and submitted a patch 
which was included in the next version (which allowed everybody else to use the 
functionality).

Being able to have choice is what I call service.

Regards,
         /\/elson

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Tim Nelson wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, greg wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Did somebody here used, or tried "cfengine competitors" like Sun N1 [1] or 
> > Veritas OpForce [2] ?
> > What is the best way to make my boss decide to use cfengine instead of 
> > these softwares (except that
> > cfengine is a free software) ?
>
> 	In addition to the great points others have made, I'd come at it from 
> the point of view it's open source, so if you really need some feature, you 
> can make it yourself (or pay someone to do that).  If it's proprietary, the 
> vendor can tell you "No-one (except you) needs that; go jump".
>
>         :)

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