Re:Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (...
by roel_v on Thursday March 05, 2020 @07:16PM
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"I don't think Tableau's data viz product does anything that couldn't also be done with relative ease in R."
It's zingers like this that keep me coming back to threads like this one! "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
From a purely technical POV, I'm pretty sure that feasible alternatives exist to all of these, e.g. I don't think Tableau's data viz product does anything that couldn't also be done with relative ease in R. Of course, these commercial offerings extend way beyond the purely technical domain where FLOSS makes the most sense; but that has little to do with "sustainable business models" - R itself is plenty sustainable on its own - and a lot to do with extremely niche or obscure "needs of enterprises" that FLOSS projects are either not clearly aware of, or not very interested in supplying. Niche and obscure problem domains have always been problematic for the open source model, this is nothing new.