[eluser]Myles Wakeham[/eluser]
Interesting points on the interest in open source in the corporate world, but I have to chime in with something that happened in a conversation with a BIG New York corporate client that I'm going out to see next week. I haven't worked with them before, but they are one of the world's largest firms in the industry they are in (I can't, due to NDA, disclose who they are).
But in a conference call getting prepared to go and see them, I asked if their IT group had a particular 'culture' of technologies (ie. are they are Windows shop, etc.). They flat out said to me, "We are an open source shop - we prefer Linux, open source DBs, PHP, etc.". That came from their CIO directly.
So anyone who thinks that corporations have a big problem with open source should talk to these guys. Pity I can't disclose who they are, but you'd probably all know them if I did.
Anyway open source is alive and well in New York City.
Myles
