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I know many advantages of Open Source Software. But what are the advantages of Commercial software from customer view? When should I use/buy a Commercial Software instead of a Open Source Software?
Started by Horcrux7 on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Sometimes you can't find a....
And I know not all software vendors are very good at post sales services not on your conditions).
Advantages of commercial software:
most of the time there is a good support team you can pay of extra security.
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What is Software Escrow? Is Software Escrow something you want?
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
The short version - software escrow is where a third party has a copy of a software product's source code, guaranteeing that, say, a business using that software product can continue development....
Softwareescrowguide.com is but a google away.
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What are some good blogs for software team leaders or software project managers?
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Software....
Scott Berkun blog.
This one is my favourite one: Pawel Brodzinski on Software Project Management .
Err, Joel on Software ?
These are podcasts but worth to listen: David series is worth to listen.
Written, fun and inspired.
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What options are there for free or inexpensive software to track software usage (launch count and usage duration) on Mac OS X?
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Some monitoring software, such as Zenoss , can track how many instances of certain processes.
Entries.
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I remember some software which was like a virtual PC except you didn't need to install an OS, it used the real one. You installed software on it and could use the software in the "virtual PC" and it wouldn't do anything to your "real" computer then if...
Started by Jonathan on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Wasn't it GoBack....
On linuz, OpenVZ is probably the most popular container system .
Well, and not having a full virtual machine.
Was it Sandboxie ?
The closest thing I can think of is "Containers", which are somewhere between a full virtual machine and .. .
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What good books you would recommend that cover the history of software and profession and biographies in the software world? - (i.e. not technical, fiction or project management literature )
I've recently read "Nerds. The brief history of the Internet...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
It's a....
Should programmers read A book on the history of business software Recommended anecdotal/history book for developers at a technical level? Who in the software world do you admire the most? One thing I like to do they're working.
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Aside from the software developers working on embedded systems and hardware modeling or any other job that deals with software for or on hardware, how much should a software engineer know about the underlying hardware that they might be developing for...
Started by Thomas Owens on
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Well acutally, after thinking a little more are writing a product to be ... .
L1/L2/L3 caches, relative speeds of cache/RAM/HDD, you can function as a software engineer -- just, but you'll write betters software if you know what's going on.
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What would you look for in a software company before deciding to join it?
Related: Dealbreakers for new programming jobs?
Started by Rachel on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
I want.
I ask about their software process.
I don't think their quality process will work.
Of their software, and how hard is it to decide whether to move to something newer?
How challenging is the work management.
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Without learning new programing languages, can we using Java get .exe (executable windows file) software directly? And is there away to make .jar (Java ARchive) software transform to.exe (executable windows file)?
Would this conversion effect the performance...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
You can make a .exe launcher with http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/ I was using a wrapper for java to make exe files for a pretty long time:
JStart32 It is just a wrapper for *.jar... .
You can launch a .exe from java with Runtime.exec() or ProcessBuilder .
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When selling a software package that requires hardware, typically dedicated hardware (could be a VM), the buyer typically has to buy the server it will run on. So the total cost of ownership (focusing on the capital expense) includes the hardware in addition...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
If it can be virtualized, even better....
Being able to deploy a new software purchase on an existing server is big plus.
And the cost can be more than just hardware and software consumption some other way.
Typically" - that's an assumption.
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