Re: Unix philosophy under the gun?

[Mike Castle]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:26:14AM -0400, David Fuller wrote:
> time to get all those 'glue' pieces in place.  We ran some sample
> numbers and it would likely cost us more in the long run to use CVS than
> some $1000/seat software because of all the glue we would need.


Do you REALLY think you won't need glue for the $1000/seat software?  Or a
full time administrator?  Or 6 months of configuration time?

It seems like you took into consideration, the hidden costs with getting
CVS integrated into your environment, but you failed to take those same
costs with the other tool.

Sure, while CVS is free, the TCO is still there.  But it is a HELL of a lot
lower TCO than many other packages.

mrc
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