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Story: Downturn spells stay of execution for legacy IT
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The idea of trusting my business IT to cloud computing, a new untested technology in the hands of a company that, due to the downturn, might go feet forwards at any moment seems like a pretty silly idea to me.
As dogstar says, Open Source is a way of dropping your costs. It is also a way of moving outsourced hosting out of the expenses column and under your direct control by self hosting. This not only knocks a little off the bottom line costs, but also makes your company more, not less resilient against the failures of other firms. Added to that, it allows you to roll out innovative online solutions without having to up your hosting expenses.
Andrew Meredith
IT Consultant, Chippenham, Wiltshire
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