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Submission + - Enterprise adoption of open source beyond Linux?

Submitted by on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @09:09AM

An anonymous reader writes: I am working with a couple of large companies that are purchasing web and collaboration software stacks from Microsoft, IBM and others. These are for thousands of end users and are (supposedly) ready for multiple data center deployment and other big-corp requirements. I have suggested some open source alternatives such as Liferay and Drupal, and the technical people are interested but management types are not. They have given a few reasons, such as concerns over supportability and enterprise-readiness, but my feeling is that they are being won over by FUD from large vendors and the fact that most corps do not have significant deployments of FOSS technologies beyond Linux yet. All this seems to be in line with a survey on web app servers by OpenLogic: http://www.openlogic.com/news/press/12.22.08.php.

So my questions are: How have you persuaded larger enterprises to adopt server-side OSS, beyond server-room Linux and a couple of demo JBoss boxes under someone's desk? And which products are truly ready for enterprise-scale deployment?

Submission + - An Old Man with a Computer Science Degree 1

Submitted by GrApHiX42 on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @01:36AM

GrApHiX42 writes: I pissed away my 20's and now I want to go to school and get a bachelors degree in computer science. The thing is, I'll be 35 when I get out of school and I've read on numerous sites that there seems to be some ageism going on in the IT industry when it comes to older geeks. What have some of the "older" Slashdot readers experienced as far as being replaced or just plain not getting hired because IT is a "young mans game"?

Comment Re:This is not a cause for jubilation (Score 1) 219

by thebluemachine on Monday July 10, 2006 @12:23PM (#15691808) Attached to: Lotus Notes For Linux To Be Released By IBM

There's no doubt that there is pain in transition. But when you say you don't know what the hell that team was on, you're not looking at the long-term technology direction that the WPLC (Workplace, Lotus and Collaboration, for those of you who don't keep up with Blue acronyms) is taking.

It's clear that the technology under the existing Notes platform is not sustainable forever, and that there will be an eventual need to merge into the WebSphere Portal/Lotus Workplace technology stream. Eclipse is the route required to lead to Hannover, and through that to composite portlet/Notes DB applications which will merge the Notes and Workplace directions.

So yes, there is pain at the moment, as there always is with technology shifts. But without it Notes (and Domino) will remain dead-end technologies, instead of leading the transition into new technology models and market opportunities.

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