Linux Yesterday: March 11, 2004 Mar 12, 2004, 05 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4452 reads)
2003: Mass High Tech: Great Wide Open (Source)
"To that end, [Chief Administrator of Technical Support Scott] Akers is advocating a [Massachusetts Department of Revenue] switch to open source/Linux, and he speaks of the possibility with the fervor of an activist..."
"...He paid $25,000 a month for his Sun and Silicon Graphics workstations. Today, he does the same work on Linux boxes that cost him a one-time payment of $30,000. Now imagine thousands of Sun customers making the same decision, and it's easy to see why guys like Lucas have Sun's executives losing sleep."
"I didn't see "hackers vs. suits" at the Summit -- just a whole bunch of people trying in various ways to get a handle on a very powerful and complex phenomenon..."
