Thanks to Marty for this
link.
“In the spacious upstairs banquet room of the Four Seas
restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown, 80 or so Bay Area Linux
Users Group (BALUG) members gathered on the evening of Dec. 15 to
dine on Cantonese cuisine and discuss various open-source topics,
such as the community-developed Linux operating system and how much
of a dent it can put into Microsoft Corp.’s armor.”
This article details one companies reasoning behind their
decision to go open-source with their $20,000 “home-grown
application server”.