[Am-info] Enterprises Add Open Source To the Mix

[Fred A. Miller]

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"Like great character actors sharing screen time with a megastar,=20
open-source tools seldom steal the limelight that shines on Linux. But=20
those tools often get more applause from users who are putting them in=20
key roles inside corporate IT operations. Jeff Carter, CIO at Omaha=20
Steaks International Inc., says he first became interested in=20
open-source software last year when the company decided to bring its=20
Web site in-house and link its online shopping cart application to the=20
corporate database on an IBM AS/400. After a careful evaluation, the=20
1,800-employee, privately held gourmet foods company opted for MySQL, a=20
popular open-source relational database from MySQL AB in Uppsala,=20
Sweden, for its shopping cart.=20

The fact that the product was free was nice, says Carter. "But free that=20
doesn't work is of no value to me," he says. What does make open-source=20
technology valuable to Carter and others is the access to the source=20
code and the broad-based online community of software developers=20
continually debugging and adding features to a slew of tools that are=20
used in a variety of IT projects."

http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=3D705072

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Fred A. Miller
Systems Administrator
Cornell Univ. Press Services
fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org
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