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Why does this heavy transaction-throughput, high-uptime, fault-tolerant customer prefer Linux (even over Solaris)?

"What we want is to be able to take advantage of technology advances when they happen," Rubinow said. "We're trying to be as independent of any technologies as we can be."

This is what I call "Zero Procurement"; it's about the customer deploying Free Software on his own schedule, and even taking on some of the cost of testing, configuration and integration.

The kinds of software problems IT vendors can usefully solve tend to be generic (universal or commodity problems). Whereas the kinds of software problems the heavy-compute buy-side can solve for themselves tend to differentiate their business.

Hardware is a different story.

Comments

[Don Marti]

podcast with Stormy Peters on, among other things, the open source buying process. It's not so much "zero" procurement as it is parall[el]ization of development and procurement. You can decide what you're going to use before, or at the same time as, you decide what company you're going to deal with.