Scott McNealy at POSSCON
At POSSCON 2012 in Columbia, South Carolina, Scott McNealy was the keynote speaker on day 2. He’s here to talk about open source and his new social media company, Wayin. During his keynote, he gave a top 10 list that had the crowd rolling with laughter.
Top 10 signs that you company should have gone with open source software
- Chapter 11 is cheaper than switching ERP vendors
- Ballmer just joined your Board of Directors
- Your CIO and the IBM CEO are on a Time Square billboard
- More of your employees are attending Oracle Open World than you all-hands meeting
- A software vendor audit is worse that an IRS audit
- Your software support pricing is growing faster that a Pelosi budget
- You believe IBM will release DB/3 for the mainframe
- Your Oracle representative laughs when it’s time for your contract negotiations (you mean explanation)
- Compared to apple you think Microsoft is open
- Your Enterprise License Agreement just surpassed your corporate income tax payments AND the Obama vacation budge—combined