"rkusenet" <rkusenet_at_sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<c78quu$136n3$1_at_ID-75254.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> Your attitude reminds me of the attitude Americans had towards outsourcing
> some 4/5 yrs ago. At that time all they could do is to arrogantly dismiss
> outsourcing as unsustainable model. We all know what happened to them today.
Yes, you've got the point. Behind both of these models (outsourcing
and free soft) is the idea that the quality is not important, the only
thing that matter are costs and their cuts. And you're also true that
freeware alternatives will earn their place. In the world where CIO is
one year temp job and the best thing on CIO's CV is cutting cost to
10% and sack off 80% of internal staff because of outsourcing to
India, in this world free databases are very tempting way to go. Of
course, the outcome will be lowered availability, higher maintenance
costs, security problems and damaged business reputation, but who gave
a f*ck, we saved 90% of our internal IT budget.
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Dusan Bolek
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Received on Wed May 05 2004 - 01:16:15 CDT
