Open Source; Cost of Support vs. Developers

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January 25th, 2005, 05:47 PM

timmy17

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Open Source; Cost of Support vs. Developers

Sorry if this isn't an exact fit for this forum, but I think it's related. My boss has been asking me about the tradeoffs of using open source + hired developers vs. commercial software + support. I'm leaning toward the open source + developer route, but I was wondering what people do for support.

Does one need to pay for support from Red Hat and MySQL, for example, or is that overrated? And what to do about all of the various Apache projects? In our case, we would likely need to use a combination of several open source products.

Thoughts/links appreciated.

Tim

January 25th, 2005, 06:12 PM

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Red Hat and MySQL are in no way are overrated. Apache is the best webserver on the web -- reguardless of what MICROSOFT says... Go with Redhat, or Gentoo. Redhat will have support, but that will cost you. Gentoo offers support on their forum(but you must be very knowledgable at Linux to use Gentoo). I would say this is the best combo Redhat/Apache/MySQL

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