Comments on: Why lots of people would want to buy commercial JDBC drivers http://tech.puredanger.com/2007/06/12/why-lots-of-people-would-want-to-buy-commercial-jdbc-drivers/ Alex Miller's technical blog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:26:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Mandy http://tech.puredanger.com/2007/06/12/why-lots-of-people-would-want-to-buy-commercial-jdbc-drivers/#comment-4342 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:22:47 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2007/06/12/why-lots-of-people-would-want-to-buy-commercial-jdbc-drivers/#comment-4342 I am the Marketing Manager for JNetDirect and the “open source vs. commercial” controversy is not new news. The easiest validation for purchasing a third-party database driver is to gain functionality and organized technical support that’s absent in the free tools. That being said - there are probably many small apps out there with users looking at open source to save money on licensing, but I don’t see large corporations (who have a different risk profile) letting go of commercial database products anytime soon. A heads-up comparison does not offer good open-source ROI, because the costs of training, deploying, and integrating can outweigh the cost of a commercial license. Do you really get what you pay for? (http://www.jnetdirect.com/pdf/OpenSourceLetter.pdf) I am the Marketing Manager for JNetDirect and the “open source vs. commercial” controversy is not new news. The easiest validation for purchasing a third-party database driver is to gain functionality and organized technical support that’s absent in the free tools.

That being said - there are probably many small apps out there with users looking at open source to save money on licensing, but I don’t see large corporations (who have a different risk profile) letting go of commercial database products anytime soon. A heads-up comparison does not offer good open-source ROI, because the costs of training, deploying, and integrating can outweigh the cost of a commercial license.

Do you really get what you pay for? (http://www.jnetdirect.com/pdf/OpenSourceLetter.pdf)

]]> by: Alex http://tech.puredanger.com/2007/06/12/why-lots-of-people-would-want-to-buy-commercial-jdbc-drivers/#comment-4196 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:49:39 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2007/06/12/why-lots-of-people-would-want-to-buy-commercial-jdbc-drivers/#comment-4196 @anjan: Generally, I'd say my experience with working bugs with third party vendors has been better and faster than working with DB vendors directly. Generally, the driver vendors are smaller and can give you a little more personal support. As for the open source drivers, I don't know if there are any licensing or legal hurdles to writing a driver to talk OCI or DRDA, etc. I presume it's mostly because it's relatively hard and boring. :) The open source developers most likely to work on such a thing are probably using MySQL or Postgres instead. @anjan: Generally, I’d say my experience with working bugs with third party vendors has been better and faster than working with DB vendors directly. Generally, the driver vendors are smaller and can give you a little more personal support.

As for the open source drivers, I don’t know if there are any licensing or legal hurdles to writing a driver to talk OCI or DRDA, etc. I presume it’s mostly because it’s relatively hard and boring. :) The open source developers most likely to work on such a thing are probably using MySQL or Postgres instead.

]]> by: anjan bacchu http://tech.puredanger.com/2007/06/12/why-lots-of-people-would-want-to-buy-commercial-jdbc-drivers/#comment-4194 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:21:02 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2007/06/12/why-lots-of-people-would-want-to-buy-commercial-jdbc-drivers/#comment-4194 hi there, right on! how about bug fixes (like security, etc). : how do driver vendors compare to db vendors ? How come there aren't any open source Oracle(insert your favorite) drivers yet ? BR, ~A hi there,

right on!

how about bug fixes (like security, etc). : how do driver vendors compare to db vendors ?

How come there aren’t any open source Oracle(insert your favorite) drivers yet ?

BR,
~A

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