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Enterprise FOSS Adoption Beyond Linux Servers?
An anonymous reader writes "I am working with a couple of large companies that are purchasing web and collaboration software stacks from Microsoft, IBM and others. These are for thousands of end users and are (supposedly) ready for multiple data center deployment and other big-corp requirements. I have suggested some open source alternatives such as Liferay and Drupal, and the technical people are interested but management types are not. They have given a few reasons, such as concerns over supportability and enterprise-readiness, but my feeling is that they are being won over by FUD from large vendors and the fact that most corps do not have significant deployments of FOSS technologies beyond Linux yet. All this seems to be in line with a survey on Web-app servers by OpenLogic. So my questions are: How have you persuaded larger enterprises to adopt server-side OSS, beyond server-room Linux and a couple of demo JBoss boxes under someone's desk? And which products are truly ready for enterprise-scale deployment?"
AFAIK, all Enterprises use a proprietary and closed-source OS. With enemies like the Romulans, the Federation will take any kind of security it can get - even security thorough obscurity.
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This is a horrible idea.
I suspect it would work, though.
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It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I'm probably the only one here that read that and thought that migrating from LCARS to Linux might not be in the Federation's best interest. Although I'm sure that 300 years from now, all software is FOSS. ^_^
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Yeah, because you certainly won't find nerds at Microsoft and Apple!
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
You've had two staff members that tricked you into expensive proprietary solutions that subsequently failed and then they tried to save the day with Free Software.
And you fired them.
Let me guess, you either work for AIG or GM.
Nooo. If Microsoft crashes and burns, IBM would buy them and put their customers under IBM's typical RAPEMEPLUS service contract.
(I'm among the hard-core ribbon-haters)
The hard-core ribbon haters now have a support group. It's called "Everyone". We meet in the bar at 5:30 PM local time.
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aw c'mon I was happily enjoying some food until you posted that.
sharepoint - to file sharing as Excel is to databases
There's more to it than this.