An unsigned reader writes "I am working with a couple of large companies that are earnings web and teams systems program stacks from Microsoft, IBM and others. These are for thousands of end users and are (supposedly) ready for mixed data center deployment and other big-corp requirements. I have suggested some open source alternatives such as Liferay and Drupal, and the specialized people are intent but government types are not. They have given a few reasons, such as connected with over supportability and enterprise-readiness, but my feeling is that they are being won over by FUD from large vendors and the fact that most corps do not have third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 deployments of FOSS technologies beyond Linux yet. All this seems to be in line with a survey on Web-app servers by OpenLogic. So my examination are: How have you persuaded larger enterprises to adopt server-side OSS, beyond server-room Linux and a couple of demo JBoss boxes under someone's desk? And which goods are truly ready for enterprise-scale deployment?"

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