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FT on Europe's Open Source Option

Posted by michael on from the good-to-have-options dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The Financial Times offers a very interesting read about Linux, its possibilities for business, and its threat to Microsoft. Also a second article about "Europe's open-source option"."

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  1. FT??? by TeknoHog · · Score: 0, Funny

    Please don't say "FT" unless you really mean Fourier Transform.

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  2. just the beginning by pmineiro · · Score: 0, Funny

    "We see Linux going over the moon," says Larry Ellison, chairman and chief executive officer of Oracle. "We have never seen anything with this much of an uptake in 25 years in the industry."

    Well, laugh now Larry, because Oracle is next.

    Hopefully the state of California will be one of the first converts to an open source database.

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    1. Re:just the beginning by guacamolefoo · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, right.
      Open Source databases are just as good for enterprise level applications as Gimp is for professional photo processing.

      Shut up, Larry.

      GF.

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