Benefits of budget cuts

April 2nd, 2003

[Original Link] From Robert Cringely’s article:

Sun Microsystems recently sponsored a major seminar at George
Washington University in the Washington area and the federal
government’s IT people attended. One source said that the
present administration has so strangled the budgets of
government agencies, especially research and education, that
they’re now considering dumping Microsoft’s licensing schemes
and transitioning to open-source Linux.

Thanks to Scott Weikart for the link.

Possibly related, but possibly totally unrelated, posts include
 "You CAN make money from Open Source software…"  "Get back in control"  "SGI compares Linux, Unix source code"  "The joys of Open Source

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