Posted on 09/09/2005 11:30:32 AM PDT by Bush2000
I will say that while Open Source may be great for development tools, to put a company's business life in the hands of open source software doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense from a risk standpoint.
Open Source has become an attempt by Western corporations to kowtow to the PRC. The PRC do not want to pay for Western IP. Of course, once they have what they want, the Western corps will see very little revenue from the PRC.
It's also been a way for Europeans and Asians to suck commercial Unix IP dry.
OSS has uses in ways that are not the obvious.
OSS has uses in ways that are not the obvious.
+1 Insightful.
Anyone involved in purchasing who doesn't sit down with his Microsoft rep at renewal time and say, "ya know, we're in the process of a TCO study of Linux vs. Windows. We're interested in how you can help us with that." is absolutely nuts.
Any credible evidence of that?
RedHat (american), and Novell (american)
Whos the largest OSS solutions provider in the world?
IBM (american)
Oh yea the US is really getting the shaft on Linux...
Only the obvious you already know about - the Chicom government naming free copies of Linux their official O/S instead of purchasing US for-sale products. They take a free copy of Red Hat and rename it Red Flag. And yes, they are obligated to buy what we only sell, as terms of WTO membership.
You call this successful? ROFL!
SEC Probes Red Hat, Will Restate Results
http://www.nysscpa.org/home/2004/704/3week/article28.htm
Novell profit plunges
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/08/26/novell_profit_plunges_92/
Bloodbath at IBM - 13,000 Fired
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Bloodbath_at_IBM__________Fired&story_id=34260
GE: why do you call them ChiComs when you have stated youre not sure they are communist?
Typical lie from you. I said some US businessmen don't think of them as communist, with IBM leading the top of that list.
http://www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/Bulletins/tim98-1-5.html
http://news.com.com/IBM+sought+a+China+partnership%2C+not+just+a+sale/2100-1042_3-5488288.html?tag=cd.top
Sounds like he drank the OSS kool-aid.
Basically what he's saying is anything but Microsoft will work here. But to justify the position he hides behind a slogan. Even if the closed source did everything he needed and was cheaper to install/run/maintain, he'd still go with OSS.
What's that got to do with "commercial Unix IP" as mentioned by B2K?
Zip, zilch, nada. You jumped in here without reading, just to take a cheap shot. How typical.
Exactly. Because some business requirements require sticking to established standards instead of a wink and a promise. You can't archive documents and expect to be able to read them in 100 years if the "standard" keeps changing every software release. So if Microsoft can't support the standard (and it can't -- because it must maintain some kind of lock-in leverage), it doesn't meet requirements, and some people will look elsewhere.
Yeah, because standards never change. But so what, OSS doesn't guarantee open standards, all it is is open source. There is a HUGE difference.
Think about it.
A whole lot. Companies like IBM are now investing in the Unix clone Linux that they must give away to China and other countries for free instead of building up their own proprietary Unix product. A billion dollars a year, minimum, by this one company alone is going into Linux. Are you claiming they are investing that much in their version of Unix? If you are, I'd like to see some proof.
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