I don't know if this helps at all, or if you plan on continuing the open source fight in your company, but Gartner predicts by 2012, about 80% of software within the enterprise will contain elements of open source. Here is the slightly older article, but relevant none the less: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/02/04/gartner-open-source-to-be-widely-popular-by-2012.
The comment about not having support for open source is just misinformation, I think. There are a number of companies that offer support for open source software, Red Hat just being a larger more well known one. JBoss and SpringSource are two big names that offer support services for their open source software, as well as companies like OpenLogic that offer support for a wide array of open source products. Like commercial software, open source software needs to be evaluated to fit the needs of the business, but ignoring it because it doesn't have an entrenched corporate logo behind it is a mistake IMHO. Sorry about the long editorial, but I hear this argument far too often and fears over open source software are generally misplaced. Good luck. Steve T. -----Original Message----- From: pavithran [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 5:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: shindig for enterprise 2009/9/16 Chris Chabot <[email protected]>: > To expand on this: > > Shindig is used in production and reaches over 800 million people, and > is used by the likes of Yahoo, MySpace, Google and over 30 other > social sites of all kinds; It's also being deployed in enterprise > environments more and more by companies like Lockheed Martin, > Atlassian, and IBM is working on it too. Yes I know that and personally I feel that it rocks But the weirdest thing is that I was given a kind of short lecture on support . It went on this way . <discussion-enterprise-talk> Them: Google uses linux on its servers ( as if they know exactly ) but why do people use Windows on their enterprise ? Me: Yeah windows is simple to use .. Them: No its becaus eof the glorious support microsoft gives that we are using windows based solution . Open source support doesn't mean anything to an enterprise... It went on like that to an extent that they would rather not have the product if they didn't get support and open source support via forums is un reliable as there is no person responsible. Me: The apache foundation is a responsible entity . You have 60% ( almost) depoloyments of apache on the server .. why do you question the founders. Them: There are people who offer LAMP support so we have no issues with it but shindig ?? Me: Have a look at containers like "linkedin" why would you have any questions? Them: No support is *a* must ! </discussion-enterprise-talk> Sorry for this message on dev list . Well I have tried partuza.nl and right now am installing shindig + partuza on my debian lenny . I will get back with real dev questions . @chris: partuza is wonderfull.. thanks to you and your team for making it rock :) Regards, Pavithran -- pavithran sakamuri www.pavithran.org
