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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Thursday, 04 December 2008 | |
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"The restricted choice of support and the fact that we were confined to smaller consultants that didn't necessarily understand our needs as an enterprise left us feeling exposed – especially as we relied on them to maintain mission-critical systems," he added. "The consultants we engaged typically had their own very particular ways of doing things and if they’d gone under we’d have been in serious trouble." Don't the big players in the IT services market such as IBM and HP all had Linux expertise these days? And maybe things are different in the UK, but in Australia there are more modest consulting firms that have been providing open source services to businesses for years. Also, you have to question the advice Fleming has been given when he talks about "the lack of automatic updates and security patches [for open source software] that forced us to rely on pricey third parties to perform upgrades". Is that correct? Please read on. |
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