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I believe in hard data and trends - as long as you have good data, you'll cut through the BS and have a decent chance to see what's going on. I'll post in the future about trends in interesting trends in various industries. In this post, I would like to present some interesting quotes that hint a little bit at some of the forces behind recent layoffs at Microsoft.
Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange (PBX) - in short, it provides telephone service within a company/organization. Of course Asterisk is a very popular project and has evolved to provides much more.
According to this BBC article, Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems co-founder, claims he has been asked by the Obama administration to prepare a paper advising them on open source software.
Quotes from the article:
"It's intuitively obvious open source is more cost effective and productive than proprietary software,"
"Open source does not require you to pay a penny to Microsoft or IBM or Oracle or any proprietary vendor any money."
