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UML/Commercial v Free Muds
Has anyone used UML here? Advantages/disadvantages? I'm thinking of using
it to help with the design of my project, having been introduced to it
through Rational Rose.
Also. Someone (John Adelsberger, I think - what a nice man) commented
that the development effort that goes into free software (he was
referring to gcc, I think) is incomparable to that of commercial software..
My experience of the commerical software development industry is: "If
it works, who cares beyond that?"
I was wondering, since there a lot of commercial/professional mud ppl on
this list, what you lot thought about it, when mapped into the mudding
world...?
What do you think of the assertion that, since in a commercial
environment, you have to get something out by a particular time, and
that, so long as the desired functionality is provided, the customer is
happy, then less attention is given to producing a quality product, than
might be given to something produced through a free community? There is
also the thousands of testers available for free products (on the
internet) to be considered, also.
Using a current example - databases - how do things like DB2 and Oracle
compare to products listed in the FreeDB list? Is it a case of high
levels of development/support (in the free industry), versus lots of
money to put into a product (in the commercial industry? Which side comes
out better? (Is this an unanswerable question, perhaps depending on context?)
--
Greg Munt, greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk; http://www.uni-corn.demon.co.uk/ubiquity/
"My ambition is surpassed only by my egotism."
- Thread context:
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Niklas Elmqvist d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se, Wed 25 Mar 1998, 15:11 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] META: Broken mail headers,
Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA, Wed 25 Mar 1998, 07:06 GMT
- UML/Commercial v Free Muds,
Greg Munt greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk, Wed 25 Mar 1998, 03:07 GMT
- RE: [MUD-Dev] 3D engines for MUDs,
Koster, Raph rkoster#origin,ea.com, Tue 24 Mar 1998, 15:23 GMT
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