courtesy: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6982
Facing tough times? Now might be a good time to turn to Open Source.
As I write this, the US economy has just finished an entire week of carnage on Wall Street, with major financial institutions failing and well as fear and a lack of confidence in our financial system reached an all time low as that hasn’t been seen since the late 1920’s. Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 and found itself sold off in pieces; Merrill Lynch was sold to the Bank of America, and mega-insurance underwriter AIG was bailed out by the US Government to the tune of 85 billion dollars, all of which were there result of too much capital exposure in the subprime mortgage market.
