> Thanks for all the great replies. I will have fun preparing this > particular report. > -dg > It can be difficult to show support for Open Source software when up against proprietary software when proprietary has the backing of money to offer assistance. With Open Source, when something goes wrong, YOU get the blame. With proprietary, the software company gets the blame. The company I work for is branched off into several data centers. Luckily, the data center I work at is very open minded with open source software and I take advantage of it greatly. It's served my center in many ways. Yet, the company as a whole is still very Microsoft-centric, even going as far to say that the only IM client you're allowed to use is Microsoft's with their main intranet website requiring IE only. Yet we're having budget cuts for 2005. It kinda makes me sick to think what money could be saved if we switched some of strategies to free software. The knowledge base and know-how is there with us techs, it's just the upper management that's out of the loop. Anyways, ending my slightly OT rant and going back to PHP, my only guess as to how to speak with your boss is to show the similarities between Sharepoint and PHP rather than showing what Sharepoint can't do. That would put your boss on the defensive and make him/her resent you. Then after you show the similarities, show the costs/savings of Sharepoint/PHP. Does that make sense? -- --Matthew Sims --<http://killermookie.org> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
