[ Thanks to Michael
S. Mimoso for this link. ]
“Last week, he stopped in at Babson College in this Boston
suburb to speak at a Linux workshop hosted by the school’s Center
for Information Management Studies (CIMS). Tiemann, however wasn’t
in town as a Red Hat evangelist. Instead, he was singing the
praises of intelligent system and network architecture and
explaining how Linux and open-source software encourage the sort of
innovation and progress that proprietary systems are not capable
of. ‘Bad architecture and the proprietary lock-in has frozen out
innovation,’ Tiemann said…“Are enough CIOs and enterprise decision makers thinking
about using Linux and open-source software from an architectural
perspective?“Tiemann: The only companies thinking about it
that way are the ones being successful. I am not seeing companies
able to change [the] status quo or retrofit infrastructure purely
at a technology level. Without having the architectural vision,
things are constantly mired down in topics of speeds and feeds and
discounts and SLAs and features in the next release. It ultimately
becomes an environment of no decision…”