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Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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| Name any company on the Street and they use Linux. I know for sure that |
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| Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch do. I've heard anecdotally that Morgan, |
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| Citi, JPMorgan and BONY all do as well. |
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| --kurt |
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The following was posted to another linux list I subscribe to. I think |
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it addresses your question quite well. I am just quoting the original |
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message which quotes the article mentioned below. |
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- ------------------------------- |
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This quote comes from the Linux Journal, Nov, 2004, pg 48 in an |
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article by Doc Searls. |
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First, a little intro. |
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There was a breakout session at the conference called "Commercial OSS |
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Business." It had a panel comprising fairly big names from Novell, |
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Apache, Matrix Partners (a Venture Capital firm specializing in OSS), |
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Microsoft and MySQL. However, the person who stole the session was in |
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the audience. Phil Moore, the Executive Director of the UNIX |
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Engineering team at Morgan Stanley. This is how he began: |
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~ I work for the 38th largest company in the world, Morgan |
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~ Stanley. We have a billion-dollar IT budget. And we use a |
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~ little of everything. Unfortunately. Excuse me, a LOT of |
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~ everything. The trend I've seen in the last ten years...is the |
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~ exponential growth in the variety and the depth and breadth of |
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~ installation of open-source software in our infrastructure.... |
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~ What I'm seeing is that in the infrastructure, the core |
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~ infrastructure, open source is going to take over, leaps and |
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~ bounds.... I'm predicting, right now, that by 2006 or 2007, |
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~ we're going to be a 90% Linux shop. |
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He goes on to say a few more quite intriguing things including looking |
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at the Microsoft gentleman and saying, "You can have the desktop...I |
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don't want it." Later he said, and this is where the international |
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flavor comes in: "I will bet my career that Microsoft is going to get |
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wiped out on the desktop in the next ten years. Not in this country." |
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Turning to the Microsoft guy he says, "You're going to own it here |
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because America loves you guys. You're set, for at least ten years." |
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Turning back to the audience he continued: |
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~ Look overseas at what's happening [with Linux]. It doesn't |
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~ matter what distribution. Because [Linux is] economical for |
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~ people in foreign countries. It lests them invest in their own |
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~ local software companies without putting money into these guy's |
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~ pockets [indicates Microsoft] or some other foreign corporation |
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~ that doesn't have a vested interest in your own economy and your |
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~ own culture. That's giong to be the number one reason why open |
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~ source ends up taking over the planet. |
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Lastly (author speaking), please note the above quotes of Phil |
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Moore are taken verbatim from Doc Searls. The rest is barely a |
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parphrase of Doc's words in the article--any credit should go to him. |
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Greg |
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