Elf Sternberg

Fortunately, the company I work in IT for is not nearly as old-fashioned. Our Director of IT runs a Mac with the necessary Windows emulation to interface with our servers, and is completely in favor of using quality software no matter if it's open-source or not.

The only pushback I ever got for open-source software was for an open-source VPN since there was no company to back up any security issues.

Our new websites are coded with Rails (two of them b/c they are database-served, the other because it was the easiest way for us to do it in-house), I use GIMP to modify images for the website or other purposes, and our servers uses a third-party PDF printer since we didn't want to purchase Acrobat Standard just to get the printing capabilities.

Does it work? Is it (relatively) secure and stable? How easy is it to use? How much does it cost? - Questions we ask in that order.

-Michael