[Charlug] posscon

[Bob Evans]

SaaS is being touted by Red Hat & Microsoft. IBM always favored it... I'm
sure Oracle will join the fray now.

When i hear from top Microsft folks that "Windows 7 is the end of their
planned desktop deployment" I gotta think they are betting that part of
their huge farm on SaaS.

It fits well into Red Hat desktop, since they have such a strong server
product to back it up.

Who knows.


On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Ryan Sawhill <ryan at openprofessionals.com>w=
rote:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Dennis Clark <boomfish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm sure we can all agree that the days of "money is not an issue" are
>> over. My hope that this does not result in a blind adoption of open-sour=
ce
>> simply as a cost-cutting measure without looking into the actual business
>> needs; unfortunately I'm already seeing signs that this might happen in =
my
>> own workplace.
>>
>
> I'm a free software advocate, for sure, but I'm definitely wary of too mu=
ch
> of this happening--that's how people get burned, turned off from somethin=
g.
> Also, generally speaking, in principle, I'd much prefer to see people mov=
ing
> TOWARD something, you know, for its merits; rather than AWAY from somethi=
ng
> else. (Though it's easy to argue that in many cases both are happening.)
>
> Also, back to Red Hat, specifically in regards to things you were saying
> Bob:
> I don't know why I didn't pipe up on this earlier, but as far as I see it,
> a HUGE part of what Red Hat provides to the world is training. I don't see
> them as just a vendor. Sounds like you do--you didn't seem to take traini=
ng
> into account in your analysis of their value and longevity. So, I dunno..
> just a thought to consider. *shrugs* While I love Red Hat and think they'=
ve
> done wonderful things for linux & FS/open source, I recognize that, like =
you
> said, things could change. Who knows. :)
>
>
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