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Story: Analyst: Slowdown in global IT spending continues
Hastening the switch to Open Source
Considering that Global IT spending is at least twice to *ten times* what is should be, this is a good thing.
Companies have been over-paying for proprietary software for years. In many cases this is simply a pride/arrogance thing - "Oh, we use the market leader and they spank us for millions, feel the size of my IT budget!!".
This kind of hubris is no longer tenable, companies now need to consider survival and CEOs, Finance Directors and IT Directors need to think long and hard about what their proprietary software is costing them.
PostgreSQL can do the same job as Oracle.
Samba and OpenLDAP can do the same job as Windows.
In fact Open Source products can do the same job as any combination of proprietary...
If you can do the same job at a fraction of the cost - you'd be pretty dumb not to in this environment, right?
Open Source just got a lot more interesting...
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