Software By Rob
AUGUST 11, 2009
At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.
The Next Web
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
Developers used PHP, Perl and similar programming languages to build websites. One of the most popular frameworks in those days were PHP-Nuke and Zend, that was tightly coupled with PHP programming language. 2 nd decade (early 2000): The First Content Management Systems (CMS).
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. Open source became a movement – a mentality.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 10, 2011
V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications.
www.kalzumeus.com
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
For example, Redmine — an open source developer productivity tool — is commonly installed at individual companies. First startup I worked at was in 2000, I found a compromised system and recommended exactly the above. Also, there have been, are, and will be many zero day exploits for PHP.
Software By Rob
JANUARY 7, 2009
Bug Tracking - You can go open source and save money, but you may lose it eventually in the time you spend maintaining and upgrading it. Pricey, but based on my hourly rate it’s cheaper than the open source solution I used previously when you factor in upgrades, crashes, and manual workarounds for missing functionality.
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