MiYahoo's future rests with open source and courage
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| In so doing, Microsoft would send a clear message to many of its largest
| customers. "A Microsoft-based web infrastructure is probably not the most
| economical or exciting path for you to take."
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| The superstars of today's internet already know this. They're running on
| software such as Apache, Linux and MySQL instead of Microsoft's family of
| Server software. Many more traditional large businesses, however, remain
| Microsoft shops and might begin to wonder if that's a good long-term bet when
| even Redmond has turned to the dark side.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/03/miyahoo_opensource/
Quote for the day:
"Number two is move Netscape out of the win32 client area."
--Paul Maritz, senior vice president Microsoft
Related and recent:
CRM company dumps Microsoft, remakes itself with LAMP
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| What Kolke and his team found was that with the low cost of a LAMP stack
| composed of CentOS, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, they were able to produce a range
| of hosted CRM solutions that wasn't possible on a Microsoft
| infrastructure. "Originally, we were intrigued by the pricing and
| distribution model [of open source] and then by the economics of developers
| in the community working on the code." The collaborative and cooperative
| nature of the open source community struck a pleasant chord with Kolke. "We
| were early users of the SOAP toolkit, and we had run into several walls with
| Microsoft where we had problems with it but couldn't get clear answers on
| when they were going to resolve the issues. We got the 'we know about it and
| we'll get to it' answer. With the open source community, we found a lot more
| support, and with having access to the code base we could contribute fixes.
| So the support was a lot more appealing for us, along with the rapid
| development cycle."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/124920
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