The 'business case' for Linux

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 19:07, Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> On Thursday 03 October 2002 11:30 am, you wrote:
> > Article about the pragmatic view of open source.  Not bad.
> >
> > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/10/01/021001hnbizopen.xml?s=IDG
> >NS
> >
> > Alan
> 
> 
> I liked this comment:
> 
> Merrill Lynch is beginning to evaluate desktop set-ups based on open-source 
> software, with the eventual hope of running 20 percent of its desktop using 
> open-source products.
> 
>  "Our primary reason to do that is our sense that the desktop market is not a 
> free, competitive market. Prices are higher than they need to be," 
> 
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I liked it where they fired the guy who removed windows and installed
linux and then hired him back 2 years later as a consultant.

;-0

Craig