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."

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Beginners level...

[watzinaneihm]

The article, about apache "And you could download it once, tweak it, burn it on a CD, and install your own version on as many servers as you wanted without telling anybody and without spending a dime.
Download it ,tweak it and then "Burn it on a CD"? Is it that whoever wrote the article never installed anything over a network?From harddisk atleast? Who wastes 640 M and the time to move from server to server to install a

Re:How many CIOs own Microsoft stock?

[Trolling4Dollars]

Yup... didn't take long for a moderator with no sense of humor to mod my post down. No surprise as I still assert that Slashdot moderation is BROKEN!