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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Now if we are talking open source tools we are speaking about a completely different thing. I think some definitions are needed to what you want to do. 1) If you want to develop serverside applications or you want to have a server far going open source from the start is a must. With open source you arrive with hundreds of options that don't cost a dime. 2) If you are going to be doing applications programming you can do it all without the cost associated with .NET. Why pay for .NET when you can use Java as opposed to C# or PHP as opposed to ASP.NET. Open source tools are just better. I would choose the Eclipse IDE over visual studio any day of the week. For any business that isn't already locked into MS or for a small company with very little invested in MS an immediate switch to an open source solutions should be contemplated. You will be saving thousands of dollars per user with the switch in licensing costs, and you will save because the developers will have access to better tools to get their job done. At work I still run a Windows OS but all of the tools I use are open source tools, and the company has saved thousands in licesing fees. Eclipse over Visual Studio $2k Blender over Max $500 Gimp over Photoshop $500 (this is bad, they should have gotten me PS) OpenOffice over MS Officce $1K Apache/PHP/MySQL over IIS/SQL Server $2k Thats 6K and is not all inclusive The cost just keep adding up, and that is just for me as the single user, if you talk about 5 or 6 developers you are talking almost enough savings to hire an additional QA! Dan @ [url=http://www.codetown.org]Code Town[/url] Loading...
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