Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 01, 2003 11:02 PM
The funny thing is that all these stats have been done time and again and tech workers know that open source has the edge in the tech sector (but not the desktop). I even work for a company whose entire business relys on Microsoft and in 2 months time have saved them almost $10,000 by going with open source solutions; I also was able to help them get rid of contractors that they relied upon heavily to maintain their current products and apps.
According to Netcraft.com, even Microsoft uses Linux and FreeBSD servers for their servers that need to be more stable. And over 60% of the web uses Apache... an open source web server (in comparison to IIS, Microsofts web server, which is only used by 27%).
Aside from that, open source ALWAYS does it's best to be cross platform compatible, Microsoft does not. I can get Apache, Star Office, GIMP and many other open source pieces of software to work equally well on my Linux machine as I can on my Windows machine insuring compatibility over different platforms. Plus a huge developer community, free source code and scripts, dependability, etc... the list goes on and on why open source has become the answer and not the problem.
Companies that stifle innovation and monopolize are the problem, not open source.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 01, 2003 11:02 PMAccording to Netcraft.com, even Microsoft uses Linux and FreeBSD servers for their servers that need to be more stable. And over 60% of the web uses Apache... an open source web server (in comparison to IIS, Microsofts web server, which is only used by 27%).
Aside from that, open source ALWAYS does it's best to be cross platform compatible, Microsoft does not. I can get Apache, Star Office, GIMP and many other open source pieces of software to work equally well on my Linux machine as I can on my Windows machine insuring compatibility over different platforms. Plus a huge developer community, free source code and scripts, dependability, etc... the list goes on and on why open source has become the answer and not the problem.
Companies that stifle innovation and monopolize are the problem, not open source.
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