Why Companies Really Turn to Open Source Software
I am a big fan of the open source culture. But this BusinessWeek article and similar articles are so full of misleading points that they put open source in a no-win situation: Open source cannot deliver on the hype that suppliers and PR writers are weaving around it and as a result the culture will suffer in the long run. This hype also misleads investors although that trend has been seriously tamped down since the 2007 peak when Yahoo (YHOO) paid a zillion times revenue for Zimbra.
What's really surprising is that this article is a BusinessWeek deliverable. It sure doesn't meet the McGraw-Hill standard I had to follow at Datapro. The author is repeating urban legends, which is not unusual. But the author does not even pretend to substantiate them, by finding an obscure source to quote. Despite what the "Cost-Conscious..." article says or implies, the facts about open source software are as follows:
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