Well Documented Open Source Business Case?

Posted by Cliff on Friday May 7, 2004 @03:37PM from the making-a-case-for-business dept.

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."

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Here's one by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-07 15:38 · Score: -1, Troll

I grew up in Linux environment all my life (my father and mother are respected Linux kernel hackers, and my grandfather bought our farm by doing SSH VPN implementations for rich folks in town), but I recently discovered on distro from Seattle that appears to kick ass. They have a kick ass GUI and media player and support for all the major hardware platforms out there, like digital cameras and HP logic analyzers.

They compiled a huge-huge list of hundreds of case studies about their distro, and I heard it was open sourced not so long ago. I think this company will kick Gentoo's ass in terms of market share, what do you open source professionals think?