The Virtues of Monoculture

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Apr 25, 2007 11:59 AM EDT
ONLamp; By James Turner
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So what’s good about a monoculture, and why does Microsoft win so often when people make a decision about platforms? Largely because what the open source community sees as a strength, people trying to get a job done in the real world see as a weakness. We celebrate the diversity of choices available to solve a problem and call it freedom. IT managers and CIOs look at it and call it chaos, confusion and uncertainty.

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The Tyranny of Choice phsolide 0 1,170 Apr 26, 2007 3:35 PM
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