[H-GEN] Interesting Trivia

[David Wood]

Robert Brockway wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Frank Brand wrote:
> 
> > Martin Jackson gave his opinion that the important information in
> > this ZDNet piece was almost buried. It mentions the comment from
> > one manager of an unnamed "Very Big Company" who said his company "would
> > never put their accounting system on an OS from somebody that they
> > cannot sue--and get something." This is not so much a Linux-issue as a
> > frightening comment on the priorities of American business. For an
> 
> It is all tied up with accountability, which big business holds up as a
> false idol.  They believe whole heartedly andopenly that someone must be
> made to pay if something goes wrong.

Hi all,

I was recently commissioned by Systems Magazine to write a feature story
on open source software.  During my research for the article, I noticed
an interesting thing:

As big corporates move to embrace distributed computing and Web-centric
applications deployment, they naturally use the same tools that everyone
else does; including Java, Perl, BIND, sendmail.  Further, many pilots
use Apache, NetBSD, Linux, etc.  Often in the corporate world, pilots
become "mission-critical" applications overnight - which solidifies
freeware's hold in the enterprise.

In short, the adoption of open source software by enterprises is opposed
from the top down, but sneaks in from the bottom up.  Very cool.

Regards, 
Dave
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