I also work for a financial company and also was given looks of disapproval when I suggested and implemented Hobbit....but we also had similar results! So far we have had three vendors with their "Amazing fix-everything" products that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, require dozens of servers, and an army of people to get them working. ALL of them have been shown the door! The bottom line is that Hobbit just plain works! ...and the support from Henrik and this message board has fixed any problem better and faster than any commercial support I have ever dealt with (try calling HP !!
- you better have a lot of time and patience!)
Thanks Henrik!
Kevin
-----Original Message----- From: Vernon Everett [mailto:v.everett at afgonline.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:11 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Henrik
Ladies and Gentlemen of the list
I would like to take a moment to publicly thank Henrik for his time.
Not only did Henrik write an amazing tool, but he released it as open source, allowing all of us to benefit from his effort. Henrik didn't ask for anything in return.
I work for a financial company. Their philosophy is, if it's free, it must be worth exactly what we paid for it. I proved them wrong. I showed them Hobbit is fantastic application which has, in the past 3 months, proven itself over and over.
But then at the end of last month, Hobbit had a serious problem. My colleagues laughed. "You running open source. Let's see where you get your support from."
I mailed this list, and Henrik jumped into action. We discussed it on the list for a while, then took it offline. Later, we were joined offline by Stefan Loos. Henrik wrote new versions. Inserted more logging. Analysed data we sent him. Debugged his code. Wrote new versions again. We did rebuilds, monitored problems, gathered logs, collected data, and made it all available to Henrik. Eventually, Henrik mailed us a final new hobbitd.c and asked us to rebuild the application.
Touch wood, but so far (48 hours later) everything looks good.
People, Henrik worked hard on this bug. 12 days, for no reward. He had no problem with his Hobbit, and no incentive to fix ours, except for a commitment to the open source community, and to us. We are not entitled to Henrik's software, bug fixes, support, time or advice. It is something Henrik gives us of his own free will, and for that I am most grateful.
Henrik, thank-you.
Regards Vernon
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