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Red Hat CEO Says Economic Crisis Favors Open Source

Posted by kdawson on from the falling-tide-lifts-some-boats dept.

arashtamere writes "Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst predicts the enterprise open source software business will emerge from the economic crisis stronger than the proprietary market. 'I've had a couple of conversations with CIOs who said, "We're a Microsoft shop and we don't use any open source whatsoever, but we're already getting pressure to reduce our operating costs and we need you to help put together a plan for us to... use open source to reduce our costs." And we've had other customers literally looking at ripping and replacing WebLogic or WebSphere for JBoss ... I think we'll know in about six to nine months but there is no question that open source will come out of this in relatively better shape than our proprietary competitors,' he told Computerworld."

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  1. Yes young padawan... come over to the dark side... by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I feel as if thousands of MCSE's cried out in pain and were silenced.

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  2. Re:Yes young padawan... come over to the dark side by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Were they using the Billy Mays awesome auger to run cat5 near gas lines?

  3. Hell yeah! by cosmocain · · Score: 5, Funny

    The year of the Linux desktop is finally to come.

    ...again.

  4. Hah, look who's coming back now! by paniq · · Score: 5, Funny

    First we were afraid
    we were petrified
    Kept thinking we could never live
    with Windows on our drives
    But then we spent so many nights
    hacking Linux all night long
    And it grew strong
    And we learned to carry on
    but now you're back
    your battle lost
    I just logged on to read about you
    urged by your bosses to save costs
    we should have told Novell to wait
    We should have raised our service fees
    If we had known for just one second
    you'd be begging on your knees

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    1. Re:Hah, look who's coming back now! by poormanjoe · · Score: 2, Funny

      If only I hadn't lost all my mod points in the stock market!

      Funny +1

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  5. Coincidentally... by Trip6 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Red Hat CEO also reported that the latest sun spots are a good reason to switch to Linux...

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  6. Re:It seems he is implying... by Risen888 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure. 0 (not 0). Wow, that was easy.

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  7. Re:Yes young padawan... come over to the dark side by David+Gerard · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah, they just hire Linux weenies. Kids are cheap. And it's not like there aren't a zillion of them.

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