CIOs Looking At OSS

bigmouth_strikes writes "There is an interesting article entitled "Your open source plan" in the latest issue of CIO. The article is about opens source software and its place in the enterprise systems market and the article shows the change in attitude over the last few years. OSS is being considered in most large corporations and CIOs are seriously looking into alternatives to expensive proprietary software and Microsoft's licensing schemes. The magazine and the article itself are intended for executives, so the technical aspect is at a beginners level."

Comments

That's great

[Anonymous Coward]

I always thought that the Church of Indonesia Online could benefit from Linux

It reminds me the Hello World joke...

[borgdows]

"The magazine and the article itself are intended for executives, so the technical aspect is at a beginners level."

*** High School/Jr.High

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 END

*** New professional

#include

void main(void)
{
char *message[] = {"Hello ", "World"};
int i;
for(i = 0; i
#include
main()
{
char *tmp;
int i=0; /* on y va bourin */
tmp=(char *)malloc(1024*sizeof(char));
while (tmp[i]="Hello Wolrd"[i++]); /* Ooopps y'a une infusion ! */
i=(int)tmp[8];
tmp[8]=tmp[9];
tmp[9]=(char)i;
printf("%s\n",tmp);
}

*** New Manager (do you remember?)
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 END

*** Middle Manager

mail -s "Hello, world." bob@b12
Bob, could you please write me a program that prints "Hello, world."?
I need it by tomorrow.
^D

*** Chief Executive

% letter
letter: Command not found.
% mail
To: ^X ^F ^C
% help mail
help: Command not found.
% damn!
!: Event unrecognized
% logout

from the article (side bar 3)

[phrantic]

Who Are Those Guys?

The mysterious people designing open-source software are the same people who are working for you right now

Worried about trusting your infrastructure to a bunch of shaggy college kids who might bolt at any moment for a yearlong backpacking trip to Switzerland? Don't worry. Even if every one of them left for the Alps tomorrow, 90 percent of the open-source community would still be checking in to one of the community's Internet hangouts (SourceForge.net and Freshmeat.net are the most popular) to see what's new.

Yeah right, like I have time to ski, or that I have any hair left, shaggy or otherwise....well except for the palms of my hand but I don't count that...

Re:Audience

[zulux]

Maybe CIO Magazine is not read by real CIOs but by wannabes, similarly to how Just Seventeen is not read by seventeen-year-olds.

I read Seventee as well!

I sort of think of it as "The Barly-Illegal Soft-Porn Magazine."

Mmmmm.... 'nutn like a hot Clearsil add to make a guy happy.

Re:Gartner Group is at it again

[Anonymous Coward]

Industry analysts, like economsits only exist to make astrologers look good.

I sense a business opportunity for industry astrology. Where will Linux be in two-three years? The stars will tell us...

Re:PC World that bad?

[Trolling4Dollars]

It's great for someone who is new to PCs. But CIOs should not be reading it. It would be like seeing your airplane pilot boarding with a "Flying the Boeing 747 for Dummies" book. It doesn't instill confidence in the crew... ;P