CERN migrates to open-source technologies
>...increasing the license costs by more than a factor of ten<p>When I hear stories like that I always wonder what was the thought process of the sales people that managed that account. Probably something like that:<p>- Hey, do you remember our old customer CERN, a world-famous scientific non-profit organization that pushes the boundaries of human knowledge about the universe?<p>- Yeah, what about them?<p>- Let's charge them 10 times more for our software licenses<p>- Can't see anything wrong about it, go ahead