Recently open source tools were touted as the solution to all translators’ troubles and a plausible replacement to proprietary applications and industry de facto standards.
While GlobalSight and TM2 had their days, opening their source and touting them with Joomla sounds like an attempt to resurrect the dead.
Just ask translators and localizers to tell you what they think of this lethal cocktail. Certainly a triple nightmare to most, if not all.
Which begs the following question: Does open sourcing obsolete tools make them better?
Unless you have a dedicated top notch IT team at your disposal, don’t even think about touching these wares. However, if you have a top notch IT team, why do you need to use undocumented and unsupported legacy code along with dated development environments?!
A small team of developers with the advent of SQL and the latest development tools, can create parsers, a segmenter, a fuzzy match engine and a top notch user interface for both offline or online translation. It would take a similar time to use undocumented legacy code and shackling development environments to end up with less optimal results.
In spirit, we all are for integration and open source. But repackaging old and tried tools into new industry killer apps by hiding them behind an open source, integration and industry-standards wrapper is not acceptable. The localization industry has gained enough technical savvy in the past decade to know that overstated stories like this no longer hold water.
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Joomla, GlobalSight and Open TM2?!
While GlobalSight and TM2 had their days, opening their source and touting them with Joomla sounds like an attempt to resurrect the dead.
Just ask translators and localizers to tell you what they think of this lethal cocktail. Certainly a triple nightmare to most, if not all.
Which begs the following question: Does open sourcing obsolete tools make them better?
Unless you have a dedicated top notch IT team at your disposal, don’t even think about touching these wares. However, if you have a top notch IT team, why do you need to use undocumented and unsupported legacy code along with dated development environments?!
A small team of developers with the advent of SQL and the latest development tools, can create parsers, a segmenter, a fuzzy match engine and a top notch user interface for both offline or online translation. It would take a similar time to use undocumented legacy code and shackling development environments to end up with less optimal results.
In spirit, we all are for integration and open source. But repackaging old and tried tools into new industry killer apps by hiding them behind an open source, integration and industry-standards wrapper is not acceptable. The localization industry has gained enough technical savvy in the past decade to know that overstated stories like this no longer hold water.
Join us in our Webinar titled “Taking Your Website Global”