[ILUG] games.linux.ie

[Justin Mason]

Ciaran said:

> >     >> I prefer not to imagine and look at what's really there.  You
> >     >> seem to be unwilling to supply examples with regard to
> >     >> "business critical software".  Surely, working for an ISP, you
> >     >> have examples of proprietary software that has no usable free
> >     >> alternative?
> 
> HP OpenView
> ClearCase (that I know of anyway)
> JBuilder (I don't use it myself - xemacs is perfect - but a lot of monkeys I 
> know couldn't do without a dragndrop environment for Java dev.)

Purify (the original and best C/C++ memory-leak checker)
Perforce (much better than Clearcase ;)

There's still plenty of room for proprietary software IMHO.  It just has
to be *better* than the free competition!

--j.