Cost-Conscious Companies Turn To Open Source

Martyr4BK writes "BusinessWeek has a slew of special reports today on open source software discussing the benefits for buyers who are cost conscious and open source being the silver lining for the economic slump. They even have a slideshow of 'OSS alternatives' like Linux, Apache, MySQL, Firefox, Xen, Pentaho, OpenOffice.org, Drupal, Alfresco, SugarCRM, and Asterisk. These are all good examples (we use a bunch of them already); what other open source software can I use to drop my company's IT costs, and maybe get a decent bonus for the year?"

Re:Web Filter

[Andr T.]

The agreement was that his web-surfing was not to be filtered.

Ah yes, the cost-conscious companies

[dingen]

in contrast to all those companies out there with a policy of spending as much as possible.

Re:Obligatory question

[lewp]

Good point. This is why the ultimate cost saver is to switch from commercial software to pirated commercial software.

Re:"Alternative"?

[larry bagina]

A spoon is a viable alternative to a shovel in certain circumstances like eating soup.

Re:Corporate Bureaucracy

[suggsjc]

I've personally found that vi(m) is the best development tool around. You can say that DW/Eclipse saves you time with auto-completion and whatnot, but as for me and my sites, I take pride in the fact that I have typed every single character.

Re:Would love to...

[xs650]

"Would love to save $$$ with OSS, but the software I need (robust, full-featured POS..."

With that requirement, it would be hard to beat Microsoft's offings.