Thread: Migration towards Linux and open source

In these times of an economic meltdown, do you see more migration towards Linux and open source?

Yes, exactly! You are paying the same, but the expectations are much higher. So, the business is getting squeezed. How to deal with that? The solution is to bring the same value, but at a much lower price point, and that's where the strength of Linux comes in.

If you look at the financial industry, they were going for big-boxes because that's how they look to scale out as they had plenty of money. Well, the situation is different now, and we see a lot more proof of concepts and a lot more deployment projects. There are a lot of small projects that are precursors to much larger projects. And, we see a Significant number of those happening now; of course, the existing Oracle stack of solutions is still there.