RE: Recommendations for a newcomer?

One should be careful of their own software with regards to performance as well. In many cases today, open source means community built and community tested. Take a look at some of the apache mailing lists. I subscribe to a couple. Their versions of Midrange-L are all about how to improve the speed and reliability of Tomcat or Apache server or Hadoop.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
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One should also be careful about open source "products". I know of a software company who wrapped one of their market offerings around an open source product and were selling it as an addition to their in-house written software. They got into a world of hurt when the customers started complaining about the lack of speed in the retrieval of the data.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 3:44 PM
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By "faster" I meant faster to market.

I must admit that tools exist that create applications without any programming that are faster to market. But you'll always run into cases where that kind of tool doesn't meet requirements. Then you're stuck. At some point, you must program. However, we use high-level frameworks and infrastructure that enables us to be more productive than most.
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