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Technology Buying Slump

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the except-in-india dept.

mgcsinc writes "According to this Yahoo article from Reuters, IT buyers are continuing a trend of cutting costs, favoring utility over cutting-edge effect. Market researchers are estimating continuing doldrums in the industry and enterprise businesses see more 'bang for the buck' from making improvements in software as opposed to investing in new infrastructure. This is not necessarily awful, however, for those who hope businesses will start looking toward open source options as the cost effective alternatives..."

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  1. open source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Sorry, but if the only thing you have going for you is that you are cheap, then you are doomed to failure.

    OK, go ahead and mod me down now because I expressed an unpopular opinion in the sheep-think Slashdot message board....

  2. Why do we care if anyone uses open source? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I am an atheist, and I don't feel a need to persuade Christians that they are delusional. If their religion works for them, great. Why do slashdotters all have this urgent need to promote open source? What do we gain?

  3. Can it be done? No, so dont waste your breath. by LibertineR · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    This is not a fucking troll, so just read it, losers. And everyone who wants to share their recipe for some mashed-together-shit-for-solution, just save it. There is NOTHING out there, that is going to duplicate the combined functionality of Exchange and Outlook within the next 3 or 4 years. I hear nothing but talk, talk, talk about everything in "development", but nothing is coming anytime soon enough to matter.

    Will Apache serve up my OWA of Exchange? Fuck no. Will it distribute MS Project files? Dont even try it. No watch as all the geniuses come to defend all the shit that is "coming" and has been so for years now.

    OSS has one thing and one thing ONLY going for it; COST. Functionality on a par with Microsoft is NOT going to happen in this decade. You can talk about security all you want, but Windows shops have accepted the negatives in favor of the positives.

    People hear can call Windows users stupid until they are blue in the face. That does not replace putting up or shutting up.