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It's already happening. Our desktop support IT guy came by to do some updates to my computer and he asked me if I wouldn't mind if he uninstalled Java. I said sure, no problem.



Sweet. Now people just have to remove the strangle-hold Oracle has on their companies data.


If we removed the stranglehold that incompetent people had over corporate spending decisions then maybe this just might happen.

Unfortunately, I think we're still a decade or so away from having technologically enlightened people saturated throughout our corporate landscape for that to happen.

Until then, we're stuck with know-nothing managers who make decisions based on how likely they are to get fired if things go wrong:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt

("nobody ever got fired for buying IBM equipment")




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