Open source on Windows, the next big thing?

Posted by grouch on Jul 28, 2006 4:23 AM EDT
Computerworld; By Eric Lai 		Mail this story
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When Bob Hecht joined Informa PLC as its vice president of content strategy, he dreamed of rebuilding the British technical publisher's infrastructure using Linux and open-source technologies. But with Microsoft Windows entrenched throughout the company, Hecht settled on a more pragmatic hybrid: an open-source content management server from Alfresco Software Inc., backed up by open-source applications MySQL, Apache Tomcat and JBoss -- all running on Windows Server-based hardware.

[All I can say is, ugh! -- grouch]

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