When someone mentions Open-Source software in the Information Technology arena these days, there's often smiles all around. There's big wide grins (those who've made careers maintaining solutions most corporate IT departments wouldn't dare touch); there's wry smiles (folks who'll listen but never ever implement software without 24/7 telephone support); there's the up/down silly Texas-border shaped smiles of those who've spend months or years wrestling with compilers, config files, dependencies, and libraries, and, of course, there's the smile-and-nod "Oh yes we've heard of that" from the gee-whiz IT Analysts who bandy about big buzz-words yet not-so-slyly bet on the favorite from the big proprietors of big proprietary software.
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