Comments on: OPEN It Up By Hameedullah Khan http://ciopakistan.com/2009/03/open-it-up-by-hameedullah-khan/ CIO Pakistan, an IDG Partner publication, generates and publishes content about the local technology-savvy business and technology community Tue, 08 May 2012 10:46:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Adeel Sarfraz http://ciopakistan.com/2009/03/open-it-up-by-hameedullah-khan/comment-page-1/#comment-4244 Adeel Sarfraz Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:40:33 +0000 http://ciopakistan.com/?p=6662#comment-4244 Open source can never be popular with companies till the people who are running them can receive support for them. Please note that money is not the only thing important to the management. It is also customer satisfaction. Companies don't want to get into a situation where their day to day operations are hindered for the reason that they don't have support for it. Yes open source is economical and will save millions for these companies but if they don't have a any technical support to resolve any issues that may come up then it's not worth a cent to them. The reason these companies pay millions to Microsoft and IBM is that they provide support and due to this factor open source lags behind. Open source can never be popular with companies till the people who are running them can receive support for them. Please note that money is not the only thing important to the management. It is also customer satisfaction. Companies don’t want to get into a situation where their day to day operations are hindered for the reason that they don’t have support for it.

Yes open source is economical and will save millions for these companies but if they don’t have a any technical support to resolve any issues that may come up then it’s not worth a cent to them.

The reason these companies pay millions to Microsoft and IBM is that they provide support and due to this factor open source lags behind.

]]> By: Khalid Mir http://ciopakistan.com/2009/03/open-it-up-by-hameedullah-khan/comment-page-1/#comment-2661 Khalid Mir Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:05:10 +0000 http://ciopakistan.com/?p=6662#comment-2661 Though I am not an IT person but my IT deptt. tried Linux but we were not comfortable or compatible so switched back. Though I am not an IT person but my IT deptt. tried Linux but we were not comfortable or compatible so switched back.

]]> By: Opensource and me in 2009.. contd « Azaad Source http://ciopakistan.com/2009/03/open-it-up-by-hameedullah-khan/comment-page-1/#comment-2657 Opensource and me in 2009.. contd « Azaad Source Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:21:36 +0000 http://ciopakistan.com/?p=6662#comment-2657 [...] switched to Opensource or Linux. So, Opensource is growing and that is really a good thing. The article I talked about in the last post has been published on CIOPakistan. I hope I will be writing more [...] [...] switched to Opensource or Linux. So, Opensource is growing and that is really a good thing. The article I talked about in the last post has been published on CIOPakistan. I hope I will be writing more [...]

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