Submission + - Open Source helps CIOs weather recession (cnet.com)
Christopher Blanc writes: "IDC expects global IT spending to increase by 5.7 percent in 2008, down from 7.2 percent in 2007. (Gartner's numbers come in below this, with 3.3 percent growth this year on top of 3 percent growth in 2007.)
Open source is a great way to retain top talent and leverage that talent efficiently. If you're a CIO that isn't aggressively adopting open source, are you really doing your job well?
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9943651-16.html?tag=blogFeed
So, our strategy is to let the dinosaurs die. As new projects come online, we're going with open source or more agile proprietary products. We aren't overtly dumping the proprietary products: We're just letting them go extinct.
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9943810-16.html?tag=blogFeed"
Open source is a great way to retain top talent and leverage that talent efficiently. If you're a CIO that isn't aggressively adopting open source, are you really doing your job well?
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9943651-16.html?tag=blogFeed
So, our strategy is to let the dinosaurs die. As new projects come online, we're going with open source or more agile proprietary products. We aren't overtly dumping the proprietary products: We're just letting them go extinct.
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9943810-16.html?tag=blogFeed"