Developers drive open source into Christian Science Monitor
CIO Curtis Edge likes proprietary applications, he really does, but if there were an equal to his Oracle Financials software in the open source world it could only be a matter of time before another migration was taking place at the Christian Science Monitor.
Indeed, this international daily newspaper has taken to the open source movement in earnest. Web applications run on the open source software stack LAMP (Linux, MySQL, Apache and PHP/Python/Perl) and planning is now underway to migrate the Monitor's Spirituality.com site off of Java-based Dynamo.
Linux runs throughout the data center, while talks are underway with the UK-based Alfresco regarding open source content management.
But beyond the tangibles like open source code it was the community that made a convert of Edge. Behind all the open code, it was the forums and flexibility that were the driving forces he believes breeds better developers than those that toil away with proprietary code.
Open source software makes developers more aggressive and more apt to go out into the communities that exist around the software to find solutions to their problems, Edge said, rather than holding on some proprietary help desk line while tech support looks up the answer.
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