Mike Miller wrote: > [snip] > > The thing you have to avoid is vendor lock-in. If you enjoy your > expensive proprietary equipment, but if its price doesn't come down (or > increases) while the competitors' prices drop, will you be able to > easily move away from the expensive machin to the inexpensive machine? > Or will you be stuck for years with the high prices? > > Mike > Odds are good that if you went with a large proprietary system to begin with, there was something that system offered that you could not replicate by throwing together a bunch of smaller cheaper systems, assuming the acquisition was the result of competent people with a business case and not the result of a salesman with a generous expense acount :) If you need that level of performance and reliability, then yes you will be locked into that vendor. Vendor portability is not something offered at that end of the spectrum. Josh _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list