I doubt that most companies will go completely open source. A software program
must be judged by the value and productivity it delivers regardless if it is
proprietary or not. About 4 years ago IBM president Sam Palmisano met a lot of
Fortune 500 customers. When he met with them is was the CEO's who asked him
about OSS. Today we are seeing the fruition of this: "Lafayette, CO (October
19, 2007) – Open Source Software (OSS) adoption
is a common-trend in the software development industry. More and more
Fortune 500 companies are turning to OSS as an alternative to
vendor-driven shrink wrapped products. Most businesses embrace OSS as a
way to cut costs, adopt emerging and potentially more effective
technologies, while leveraging the intellectual property and support of
the development community.("
http://www.prurgent.com/2007-10-19/pressrelease4334.htm )
----- Original Message ----
From: Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 9:43:39 PM
Subject: Re: Vaunted WiMax's messy side: the spectrum grab - MarketWatch
On 10/28/07, Randall Shimizu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The upside is that larger companies see through all their marketing
hype and realize that OSS can reduce costs and greater interoperability.
Then why don't the Global Foretune 1000 companies simply form an OSS
consortium and develop all of the common software i.e. OS, middleware,
database, communications infrastructure, that they need?
If they each put 5% of their yearly IT budget to this than within
a few years they would be free of Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, etc. ...
I suspect that "reduce costs and greater interoperability" do
_not_ drive their agendas.
BobLQ
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