Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 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
Its the same bs from micoshaft support for years.
It must hurt a lot to have micoshaft support to
be compared to open source support and open source wins now
that open source support systems are much bigger than micoshaft's.
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