Are you people kidding me? Every environment we have EVER gone into using open source has been flat out blown away by the speed with which we develop on cloed systems, e.g., .NET.
I just bid on a project last month and came in at 1.5 mos delivery time. Every other bid was in PHP/Java and the rest of that opern source riff-raff--average delivery time? 4-6 mos, with nobody else coming close.
So spare me! Business wants quality, maintainability, scalability and they want it NOW!! When you look at open source vs. closed source systems (esp. Objective C) you see there is no test because the support is precisely the difference! That is to say-- relying on the producer of a product rather than "hoping" someone in the community might post an answer or response to a forum on a web site is a much better way to go!
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