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Shift To Open-Source Software Ups Ante For Microsoft, Oracle | |
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| Time: 12:15 EST/17:15 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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Facing strong competition in online travel reservations, Sabre Holdings Corp. decided to overhaul its technology — allocating $100 million on a risky, new approach. Sabre replaced its mainframes with low-end servers and open-source software. Sabre, which expects sales of some $2 billion this year, was one of the first big companies to move to open source. But others are doing likewise, a trend that's reverberating through the tech industry. |
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| #1 By 415 (199.8.64.110) at Thursday, December 11, 2003 03:24:22 PM |
| MS SQL Server rules, everything else drools!!! ,.|.. ..|., |
| #2 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at Thursday, December 11, 2003 04:06:36 PM |
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$100 million is an incredible amount of a corporate development project.
I wonder how much they actually saved by using open source? I mean he's comparing his costs to running MVS mainframe stuff, which we all know is expensive. |
| #3 By 135 (208.186.90.91) at Friday, December 12, 2003 03:04:28 AM |
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bluesky - I doubt $100M is pocket change, but it's probably not terribly unexpected over a 4 year period.
But labor is where all your project costs are. |
