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Re2: Production Environments and "Foreign" Code

by dragonchild (Archbishop)
on Mar 12, 2003 at 16:11 UTC ( [id://242404]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Production Environments and "Foreign" Code
in thread Production Environments and "Foreign" Code

Then, once you have those tests, upload them back to CPAN!

If your management balks, do the following:

  1. Ask them if they like the rapid and safe development of their system.
  2. If they say "No", then that's an answer.
  3. If they say "Yes", then tell them what the cost would have been to hand-roll all the underlying modules. Estimate about 2-3 man-years (at least!) for DBI, CGI, XML::Parser, and others.
  4. Ask them for your back-pay.
  5. When they balk at that, tell them that this is the "cost" of using open-source software.
  6. Let them compare for themselves the cost of closed-source vs. open-source.

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