Reasons to use open source software

Reasons to use open source software

A company to monitor the performance metrics for MySQL and SQL Server two databases requires a monitoring software

A said: Buy on the line, the price is not a problem, the most important is to support MySQL and SQL Server

B said: With open-source bar, Zabbix, the day Rabbit can

Personally like the B, spend a large price to buy a closed source monitoring software, at least 4 points below insufficient

1. Renewal of the second year

2, machine code problem, changed a machine can not be used

3, after-sales problems, with the other side after sales, because the general cool monitoring software is basically foreign software, not seen in the country at the same time support MySQL and SQL Server

4, two times development, sometimes buy back the monitoring software may not meet our expectations, we want to function might need two times development, and two times the basic difficult

Open source software does not have the above 4 points insufficient

For example, Zabbix can add templates, add item, write Shell/python custom script extensions, and the day rabbit now supports both MySQL and SQL Server.

Can be modified on the basis of open source

Of course, some people will be very afraid of open source software, because they do not use Linux/unix, because I have seen some operations manager, or IT department leader will only use Windows

Ignorant of the open source world

Above is personal opinion, if there is wrong place, welcome everyone to shoot brick O (∩_∩) o
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Reasons to use open source software