Red Hat CEO Says Economic Crisis Favors Open Source 191
arashtamere writes "Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst predicts the enterprise open source software business will emerge from the economic crisis stronger than the proprietary market. 'I've had a couple of conversations with CIOs who said, "We're a Microsoft shop and we don't use any open source whatsoever, but we're already getting pressure to reduce our operating costs and we need you to help put together a plan for us to... use open source to reduce our costs." And we've had other customers literally looking at ripping and replacing WebLogic or WebSphere for JBoss ... I think we'll know in about six to nine months but there is no question that open source will come out of this in relatively better shape than our proprietary competitors,' he told Computerworld."
Yes young padawan... come over to the dark side... (Score:5, Funny)
I feel as if thousands of MCSE's cried out in pain and were silenced.
Re:Yes young padawan... come over to the dark side (Score:5, Funny)
Were they using the Billy Mays awesome auger to run cat5 near gas lines?
Hell yeah! (Score:5, Funny)
...again.
Hah, look who's coming back now! (Score:5, Funny)
we were petrified
Kept thinking we could never live
with Windows on our drives
But then we spent so many nights
hacking Linux all night long
And it grew strong
And we learned to carry on
but now you're back
your battle lost
I just logged on to read about you
urged by your bosses to save costs
we should have told Novell to wait
We should have raised our service fees
If we had known for just one second
you'd be begging on your knees
Coincidentally... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hah, look who's coming back now! (Score:2, Funny)
Funny +1
Re:It seems he is implying... (Score:3, Funny)
Sure. 0 (not 0). Wow, that was easy.
Re:Yes young padawan... come over to the dark side (Score:3, Funny)