I have a closed source proprietary database that I wish I did not have to manage. I pushed for the open source but CTO didn't trust that there would not be a long development tail (it probably would) since there were few good options at the time so he bought it and I regret not fighting harder against it nearly every day since it went live.
The core product works fine and has little maintenance which is nice but its cost scales badly and takes every bit of my budget now and the fancy features never work or can actually be used in production. If I had that budget instead we would have something far more suited for the company but seems like few managers will take that risk unless its the core function of the company.
The core product works fine and has little maintenance which is nice but its cost scales badly and takes every bit of my budget now and the fancy features never work or can actually be used in production. If I had that budget instead we would have something far more suited for the company but seems like few managers will take that risk unless its the core function of the company.
Also the mostly relevant xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/1205/