Bruce Toback wrote:

> It's certainly turning out to be a delightful irony that open source
> products are gaining market share because they're perceived as more
> likely to be there for the long haul than fee-for-license products from
> major manufacturers. In the Alice-in-Wonderland world of corporate
> management, IT staff have long been asked to justify perfectly reasonable
> decisions in terms of management's looking-glass views (viz., the Gartner
> Group thread).
...

Well, I wonder if it's time for application oriented information systems to
be picked up via the open source method. I can just see the next ERP solution
coming this way.  There is still a lot of money to be made in service and
support, integration, etc.

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Richard Gambrell
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