Tuesday, October 29, 2002

Lately I've been thinking about choosing software for an organization based on the software license's strategic fit. I think that the software license needs to fit with the long term strategy of the organization. An example, from government, would be a software license that encourages stability in interfaces. Government needs at least a 10 year run from the technology adopted. I'm pleased with the licensing shepherded by the Java Community Process so far. I think it's great that the JCP is showing good support for Open Source. Java has been a great fit in my organization. Over the 4 years we've been developing with Java the API's have proliferated but little of what we've written needs to be replaced for obsolescence. And it keeps on chuggin' day after day. 6:22:41 PM

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