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Well Documented Open Source Business Case?
PeteQC asks: "I'm currently working on a project and I need solid and well documented case studies about actual implementation of open source in an enterprise (failure or success). My goal is to use the grounded theory to build a scientific model on Open Source adoption. I've searched through the web, but the only good case I found was the Beaumont Hospital Case. (Which was also published in IEEE Software, January/February edition). I'd like to know if Slashdot knows of other well-documented case studies which I may use? I'm looking for a link to a web site or a reference to a specialized publication, but all assistance will be welcomed."
A friend of a friend of mine knows a dude who hangs out by their building sometimes to meet the other dude who lived there, and his grandmother once successfully installed Linux and offered enterprise support to Fortune 1000 corps even though she was like feeble and shit, and wore a diaper and thought the cat was thinking about killing her.
The dude himself is pretty cool, too, he's a well-known successful open source developer, and used to be employed by hospitality industry and then he open-sourced a bunch of towels and silverware to his house, and got fired and right now he's working for Burger King on 4th with no benefits. He said he quit because his boss was a Windows wuss anyway, and so was the entire hotel chain, and their customers, and like businesses who sold shit to the hotel and so on. Mindless Windows dumb users. His shift is 1-9, if you come around with notepad or Microsoft(r) Tablet PC(r), he'd tell you gladly about successful open source implementations.