How To Save $1 Trillion a Year With Open Source 275
ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Cygnus founder Michael Tiemann estimates IT customers globally could save a trillion a year with open source or free source software." Not that a guy with a title like "VP of Open Source Affairs" at Red Hat would have a reason to be biased, but it's an interesting little read about a guy who's been doing this longer than you. Well, most of you anyway.
And you can save even more (Score:5, Funny)
If you don't get it from Red Hat.
Re:or how to... (Score:5, Funny)
"Suddenly pulling a trillion dollars out of the economy would have a pretty severe effect."
Since companies would take the Trillion dollars they save and throw them into a furnace to heat their buildings...
From TFA (Score:5, Funny)
I got a chuckle from this gem:
The reality of the situation was that we couldn't find any names that were not previously registered. When I lamented this fact to a couple of my Net friends, one of them searched the dictionary for words that contained "GNU". And "Cygnus" seemed the one that was least obscene
Re:or how to... (Score:3, Funny)
You're forgetting that the savings would be immediately put back into executive salaries.
And it's us, the computer janitors, who would have to retrain everybody and have to work around the quirks of all new systems that were replaced by working ones. Wonderful!
Re:Uhh, Who's Gonna Pay?!? (Score:5, Funny)
Mark Shuttleworth?
Re:Save money on software aquisition (Score:4, Funny)
SHUT UP! As soon as your company converts to FOSS all will be rainbows and unicorns! Your secretary will automagically know Thunderbird. Your graphics team will pick up GIMP in a day. Your sys admins experience and training on Windows servers will make him an instant Red Hat server guru. There's no learning curve, just awesomeness and freedom to change the software as you please!
Re:or how to... (Score:4, Funny)
And, the heat generated by the burnig of this trillion will accelerate global warming. Open source is bad for the planet.
Re:Uhh, Who's Gonna Pay?!? (Score:3, Funny)
Three right turns = one left. It is a universal rule!
Hey, I don't live on euclidian space, you insensitive clod!