[ Thanks to Phillip Brown for this
link. ]
“Is open source a software product or a philosophy? CIOs don’t
really care, as long as it soothes their headaches rather than
creating new ones.“CIOs have always fanatically sought to simplify their IT
architectures—and no more so than in recent years, as
companies struggled to align their IT programs with business
strategy while putting a premium on stripping away unnecessary
costs, complexity and risk. So why in the world would CIOs give a
second glance to a new software infrastructure such as Linux,
developed by a loose federation of thousands of individual
programmers operating outside the womb of a highly structured
technology provider…?”