I found this pair of articles with the above title very interesting. It basically goes over several issues explaining why clients don't talk about OS in their organizations. Something I have experienced first hand. Back 3 years ago we wrote an article about a local bank that started to use Perl in one of their critical applications. While we got approval from the lower levels of the organizations we suddenly received a call from one of the managers to stop the article from being publicized. They did not want to see their name in connection with some Perl application even though they got it from IBM, their hardware vendor.
http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020463,39238437,00.htm http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020463,39238434,00.htm While these articles explain some of the reasons, it does not say much on how can we encourage more organizations to talk about their use of Open Source technologies. I think one of the reasons people would start to talk about it if it turned out to be cool or sexy or modern to use Open Source and by publicizing use of Open Source one would get higher evaluation from his/her peers. Forming a HaMakor award for the managers who make the move? Opening a HaMakor club for manegers who encourage (or allow?) use of OS in their organization? Gabor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
