The most recent Information Week has an article "Open Source Goes Corporate" which makes Open Source mainstream in the corporate world. Open source technologies (i.e. Linux, Apache, MySQL, etc..) have been used for years, however, in the corporate world was eyed by managers with suspicion. Now that Information Week has a major article about it, it is now politically correct to talk about open source technologies. That is my dab at those clueless managers who make decisions based on reading the first page of an article in a weekly trade magazine primarily geared towards pushing technology. The biggest factors mentioned in the article is lower costs, greater performance, adaptable and extensible technology that removes the single vendor dependence.
I was surprised at how many well known big companies are planning to migrate to Linux. The article mentions E-Trade, Fidelity, UPS, Continental Airlines, Walt Disney, Yahoo, just to name a few.
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