Do you find for your application development becomes more and more difficult to find resources? If so, you can choose the open source platform for the application development environment, such as Ruby on Rails, in the current harsh economic climate, software development project to find new ways to get resources from the open source community to save the next big pay the permit fee.
Through the open-source platform, developers can get free technical support from the community and feedback. "I would say that open source development platform for all types of development projects, are more economical," said Caleb Houser software development experts. Open-source can help you save money, save the money can be used for other purposes, he added.
Rails developers think that open source is cheaper and better
Houser's statement has been recognized by other developers. Compared to Microsoft's. Net development tools, open source platform for the price to be cheaper and more companies from Squeejee Rails Rails developer Jason Derrett said, "We do not need to spend 2000 U.S. dollars for each machine to install the development tools. "
Exchange and sharing of open source community has also greatly facilitated, Derrett said, "If you can see farther than the U.S. dollar more, then the fact that the open source community, almost everyone can share in the contribution of other people, which means for you do not have a simple bug fixes and wait 6 months for the official update, so this is also a savings. "is similar to Ruby on Rails this open source platform to make updates almost every week, while by the end of March released Rails 2.3.2 version is updated the number of history record the most.
Data for the government to provide an open API of Sunlight Foundation, an Internet developer David James at the recent RailsConf 2009 in the General Assembly strongly recommends Ruby on Rails, his argument is Rails has low deployment costs, and there is no risk of vendor lock. "I like it because it's the community, resources, learning ability and view the source of the way."
Another developer, from the market Search Add Three of Norman Clarke agreed with this view, because the economic downturn, outsourcing market, a decline in overall demand, but Rails has attracted more attention. He said, Rails allows developers to save time, there are a large number of developers who would like to work on this platform. Especially in Web development in this regard, Ruby on Rails has been a lot of attention, including the fire Twitter this site.
Clarke that the open source development for the network and other projects are more economical solution. "Some companies that use commercial software to reduce time to market their products, but the risk is that they do the pay will far exceed their expectations, because they end up technical support than they think much less," he said. "Let another company to determine their core underlying architecture is not far enough on the ideal standard, and software licenses definitely be taller than you really need to rise more quickly."
"I think the application of open source software development is certainly more economical way, because you do not need to write everything," developer Martin Emde think so, "open source culture, like Ruby on Rails, meaning more good code can be issued free of charge and free to use, that you do not write more code. "
He took his experience and were compared with standard commercial software, "I do not resent the development of closed source software. No software is perfect ... ... but you can not own to repair the closed-source environment, companies must be patient and wait for a patch, If it would have pulled out money to ask them to repair. "In fact, Ruby on Rails into the enterprise applications have been developed for several years and received.
Rails is more conducive to start-up companies
Rails to developers who want to provide business opportunities, Rails framework, said David Heinemeier Hansson, founder. "When you start a business, you want everything cheap and fast as possible," he said, "Rails is necessary to help you complete this, so you spend less resources to construction projects," without having the software permit costs and headaches.
Squeejee Rails of Derrett agree, he thinks the economic downturn for developers to provide entrepreneurial opportunities, and low-cost open-source tools such as Rails will be their best weapon. "Economic downturn is a very good business opportunity," he said, because in the current wave of layoffs is difficult to find an attractive job.
Different views: the cost advantage may not be easy
But there are also developers do not believe that Rails, or any open source tools will be able to save development costs. "I do not think any other platform, Rails, and there will be much different," online training company GeoLearning's Software engineer Darrin Holst said. "Rails and Java or. Net has the same complicated thing to do to you, such as providing the underlying infrastructure. Rails can make writing code easier, but you still want the code into productive forces. There are still many obstacles . "