Managing IT: Changing Our Minds (About Everything)

“We need to change our minds about the safety we find in
established vendors and their products. Yes, Microsoft, Oracle and
IBM make good stuff but so do Salesforce, Redhat and JackBe. We
don’t need to buy everything veteran vendors sell just because
they’ve been around forever and we know we can explain Microsoft,
Oracle and IBM to confused business executives and boards of
directors. It’s time to try some new providers, some new
products and some new acquisition models.

“Open source is here to stay. Even the established vendors have
“embraced” open standards. They have no choice. Do you? Yes, you
can stay with proprietary software and pay the price or migrate to
a hybrid software architecture that blends the best of both worlds.
Who knows where all this will lead, but it’s time to begin
the migration toward openness and the freedom to express yourself.
Symphony versus MS Office versus OpenOffice versus StarOffice?
Yes.”

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