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[News] The Weather Says It's All About Free Software

  • Subject: [News] The Weather Says It's All About Free Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:28:28 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Blue Skies for Open Source

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| Chief Technology Officer Dan Agronow doesn’t say whether his staff broke a 
| bottle of bubbly over the new MySQL app server that replaced an Oracle 
| system, but you can tell he’s happy.  
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=software&articleId=305118&taxonomyId=18&intsrc=kc_feat


Related:

OSS is a clear winner at The Weather Channel

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| TWC is continuously moving more toward open source software, Shield
| says. "We continue to look at new ways to manage our infrastructure, 
| and more effectively optimize monitoring of key systems storage solutions,
| and we've been looking at some security and network tools as well. We
| pretty much have moved to open source predominantly for all our systems,
| though we are Microsoft in some areas."
| 
| Shield says that if CIOs are not considering open source, "they're
| doing their company a disservice. I continue to be surprised when
| large companies don't take more full advantage of the benefits that
| open source products can offer. It doesn't require someone to
| transition the entire organization, but take a look at the total
| cost of ownership and use where appropriate. I frequently hear
| companies claim that the TCO figures for open source are exaggerated.
| I totally disagree. You hear about the learning curve. Frankly, for
| us, we see open source as a competitive advantage. Not only does it
| provide TCO benefits, but it is an incentive for our internal
| resources because they get the opportunity to work on leading
| edge technology."
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http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/21464


Linux is the road to success

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| Linux is the way of the future and we need to accept it.  Linux runs all of 
| the big atmospheric computer models, it is so much easier and cheaper to run 
| multiple processors on.  It runs the bigger programs and databases better and 
| faster, and the best reason for me to learn it is: if I want a better job I 
| need to know how to use it.    
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http://www.upperweather.com/bblog/archives/22

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