On today late night ramblings trough "zee interwebz", I've just stopped and read that BT (as in British Telecom) is changing their "internal enterprise systems" to opensource alternatives.
""For us historically to even dream of going down the open source route was probably one of the only things that ever got you sacked - but now it's not only encouraged, we're growing our whole open source community" - by Gary Shainberg, BT Group’s Vice President of Technology & Innovation Support. This is rather interesting, since not a long time ago, the opensource 'attack plan' was aimed for the common need of enterprise user, then for his IT manager and finally the company executives, a bottom-up approach to evangelize opensource and produce an acceptance path. On the other hand, OSS evangelists were following this path like dogs, it was their dogma. Not long ago a SF company changed some premisses; Google had started to use OSS to deliver the world the largest web empire. Not only they've produced and evangelize OSS, but also eating it like hungry bears in the winter. Still the companies wasn't adopting it as "we" wanted to. "No one big uses OSS", "OSS is for geeks", "OSS is a academic project", they've said. But now we look at (all) the new world startups and they're not just heavily using OSS on server, they also produce and eat it. They're the ones that change the enterprise mind, top-down. *They're the examples that CEO's need*; small-medium-size companies, eager startups that aspire success, *not the users*. Reference: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23695412-5013404,00.html _______________________________________________ tce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.paradigma.pt/mailman/listinfo/tce
