• LordCrom@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    No one ever gets fired for buying IBM or Microsoft. I remember years ago I put together a plan for all opensourced, mature software on Linux hosts for my company. Would have saved us 6 figures in coats. They went with microsoft’s crappy solution instead because it was Microsoft.

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      18 hours ago

      What was your Boss’ feedback? Why didn’t he/she like your recommendation? I’m going to guess a major constraint was too many sources for software.

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        9 hours ago

        Basically, if they went with IBM and it broke, its IBM’s fault

        If they went open source and it broke, its our fault for picking it.

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          2 hours ago

          I mean, they are probably running RedHat or Debian on their servers anyway, so if it’s reliable enough for them, then it’s reliable enough for clients.

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          5 hours ago

          Liability for one’s product actually means something to IBM/Microsoft/etc. instead of some guy on github.