Tip of the hat to JOHO for hipping us to this excellent survey piece on top tier deployments of opensource software from CIO Magazine -- Malcolm Wheatley takes the FUD head on by asking CIOs about costs, savings, support, reliability, suitability and even the legality of basing missing-critical systems on free software. For the impatient: The repeated bottom line is free software is just 'better' ...

"It's not about being cheap. It's about doing our jobs effectively—and we're willing to pay quite a bit for that."

[ Source: The Myths of Open Source ]