Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Open source adoption set to rise
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> | Open source software will take away 22 per cent of the traditional
> | software market over the next five years, according to research
> | firm Gartner.
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> http://www.vnunet.com/computing/news/2158224/open-source-growth-predicted
Seems about right, and really relates to your other post 'MySQL Sets world
record'.
More of the companies I talk to are already bringing up the 'MySQL' word all
on their own, have been for a year or maybe two, ok so some want it on an
MS platform, but thats alright because at least it means that the migration
problems of *cough* Other systems, will never be a problem for them at a
later date when they do want a Linux server.
In the end databases are what a company runs on so MySQL and postgres are
really our crowd pullers in the business world.
Then with the news of Oracle coming fully into Linux, well Linux suddenly
jumped a few rungs in the ladder. I bet your socks dbase managers are
already looking at migration paths to Linux based on that news, the cost of
migration to a Linux platform is guarenteed to to pay for itself several
times over in hardware/software savings.
I've been in and around this stuff since about 1979, with the peaks and
troughs etc. But now, right now I mean, in many ways is the most
interesting time.
I just set off a new project for a company, servers and factory system.
I think it is amazing that I can get a HP server class computer for Â1000,
bring it up to Â1800 for decent storage space. Double it and you have a
mirror. We are still in petty cash territory for many a companies IT
department.
As for the OS, I was going to go Redhat, but decided that I liked the Suse
three year deal.
So there we have it, all of the hardware and software for a major project,
with a full mirror, so there will be no down time, for under Â4000.
Come on IT'ers, how many of us would have believed such a system would ever
get below the Â20,000 mark not so many years ago?
Now all I have to do is write the factory system. I'm not a keen programmer
anymore, maybe one of my old ones will do, I wrote a thing for sheep
farmers once I'll dig that out and see if I can make it look like a
packaging systems factory control software 'Bob the computer said can you
package these goods and when your finished you apparently have to go visit
the shearer'.
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