Has Open Source Jumped the Shark?

AlexGr writes to tell us that Jeff Gould has a somewhat jaded look at the commercial push of Open Source and what that may be doing to the overall Open Source movement. "I've been a Linux fan for years, but lately I wonder if the drum beating from the big IT vendors in favor of open source hasn't finally slipped over the edge from sincere enthusiasm to meaningless — or in some cases downright hypocritical — sloganeering. The example that brought this gloomy thought to mind was a recent IBM press release touting a 'new open client solution' as an 'alternative to vendor lock-in'. Wow. Imagine that. An alternative to vendor lock-in."

Comments

Re:Zero INITIAL cost

[winkydink]

Hmmm... Interesting that movies from the 70's would portray a $500 bill as it was removed from circulation in 1969.

Re:Sometimes there's no alternative.

[Coryoth]

Out of curiousity -- have you looked into Teradata at all? It certainly offers scalability to ridicolous data volumes.