[Am-info] Oh.......this is a BIG one for Open Source!

[Fred A. Miller]

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Merrill Lynch Reverses Course And Embraces Linux

Financial services firm makes the business case for open-source

"Merrill Lynch is happy with the value it gets for the money it spends
on hardware; where the company would like to drive down costs is on
desktop software spending, Lefkowitz said. Toward that end, Merrill
Lynch is beginning to evaluate desktop set-ups based on open-source
software, with the eventual hope of running 20% of its desktop using
open-source products.

"Our primary reason to do that is our sense that the desktop market is
not a free, competitive market. Prices are higher than they need to be,"
he said. Migrating 20% of supported desktop PCs would create a
sufficient user base to show vendors Merrill Lynch has an alternative,
he said."

http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C74879%2C0.html?nlid=OS

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