Open Source In eHarmony Development Bliss

When it comes to avoiding outages that cost a business $1,000 per minute of downtime, the matchmaking site eHarmony prefers an open source stack for its operations. Love-arrangers report on NewsForge cited eHarmony VP of engineering and operations on the topic of software choices. Netcraft shows the JBoss for serving applications; and Ingres, both of which offer serious relational database choices. For developers who would like to get open source in the front door of their companies, where proprietary solutions may dominate the work landscape, Douglas offers some advice in the report. "Just pick the right product. Usually the concern about open source that I've witnessed is, 'how am I gonna get support?' But even if you're not paying for support there's a ton of information out there. I would just find the best product for whatever I'm trying to do, and if that's open source, there's generally a company that will help you." Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business.