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[FSM with Cheddar]

Subsonic wraps stored procs nicely. It can also run on top of Enterprise Library
It is also kind of sponsored by Microsoft i.e. they now employ the bloke that kicked it of.
It is also open source, so there are no problems in fixing any problems, or worrying about it being dropped.

[lambrini_socialist]

Subsonic wraps stored procs nicely. It can also run on top of Enterprise Library
It is also kind of sponsored by Microsoft i.e. they now employ the bloke that kicked it of.
It is also open source, so there are no problems in fixing any problems, or worrying about it being dropped.

good call!

although i wonder if an MSFT-only, sproc-only shop will allow open source into their building. you know the sort....

[FSM with Cheddar]

Yeah I had the same hassle with my current gig. When I told them it would save at least a weeks worth of work (on a 9 week project) by using subsonic instead of hand crafting they soon said ok.

Some companies hate open source just because they can’t spend any money on it. I wanted to use bugzilla for tracking issues etc, but the company wanted to buy something instead. I think any open source project should offer a paid for option for these stupid companies.

[lambrini_socialist]

I think any open source project should offer a paid for option for these stupid companies.

depending on the terms of the open source license, perhaps you can "add some value" and then sell it to them yourself? for instance, charge them two grand for Nhibernate (free) with a lovely printed manual (two grand).

[jmo21]

yep, plenty of places won't let you use open source, simply because if its free, they don't have a company to blame if something happens with it

I also remember Codesmith being proposed at one place, and one of the devs saying "why would i want to use something from a company i've never heard of"