[Nick Danger]

I think that businesses owners / management are starting to get quite tired of the bills they pay for IT spending, especially for things that bring no ROI.

Yeah, I can't think of another area of corporate endeavor where the maintence costs — just to stay in place, functionality-wise — are as high as they are in IT.

IT managers especially hate this kind of stuff, because it makes them look stupid. Bean counters have little sympathy for IT guys who bet on a development platform that gets orphaned by the vendor. They're supposed to be the "experts" who don't make those kinds of mistakes.

[Bush2000]

IT managers especially hate this kind of stuff, because it makes them look stupid. Bean counters have little sympathy for IT guys who bet on a development platform that gets orphaned by the vendor. They're supposed to be the "experts" who don't make those kinds of mistakes.

Phew, then they'd better not go with RedHat, because they'll get orphaned within a couple years ...