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Cost-Conscious Companies Turn To Open Source

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

Martyr4BK writes "BusinessWeek has a slew of special reports today on open source software discussing the benefits for buyers who are cost conscious and open source being the silver lining for the economic slump. They even have a slideshow of 'OSS alternatives' like Linux, Apache, MySQL, Firefox, Xen, Pentaho, OpenOffice.org, Drupal, Alfresco, SugarCRM, and Asterisk. These are all good examples (we use a bunch of them already); what other open source software can I use to drop my company's IT costs, and maybe get a decent bonus for the year?"

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  1. Re:How about GIMP? by danieltdp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sorry for the bluntness, but... holy crap! not The Gimp Thread Again. It boils down to:

    1) Gimp is nice
    2) Gimp gets better with time
    3) Gimp's interface is horrible
    4) Gimp's interface gets better with time
    5) Gimp doesn't have CMYK support
    6) This is not important to a whole lotta people
    7) But it is a show stopper for some
    8) iterate until hell freezes over

    There, one less gimp thread!

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    -- dnl