Corporate Resistance to the Adoption of Linux and Open Source Applications | Linux Today

Corporate Resistance to the Adoption of Linux and Open Source Applications

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 12, 2007

[ Thanks to Kenneth
Hess
for this link. ]

“So just what is it about Linux and Open Source that company
owners and executives don’t like? Heavy hitters like IBM, Sun,
Oracle, Dell and HP don’t seem to be making huge strides toward the
adoption of Linux. OpenOffice.org, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and a myriad
of other applications have not pushed Open Source programs or
Linux, in large numbers, to the world’s Desktops or Servers. I
don’t get it.

“Why do people inherently fear something for free? Is it because
we have been taught that you don’t get something for nothing? Or is
it deeper than that? Do we feel that by using Microsoft’s Operating
Systems and applications that we are somehow better off…?”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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