Due to the latest events I was involved in, I talked with a lot of people from Romanian IT. Today I was a speaker at ITBoard event, where I talked about Open Source virtualization solutions: Xen and OpenVZ (You won’t find too much information in the slides, cause I’m lazy and I preferred only to talk rather than to write and talk).
After my presentation we had another talk with some guys that came there. I must say that most of them where impressed about the features Xen and OpenVZ solutions can offer. The discussion stopped when it came to the problems in Romanian government.
I was reported that most of the companies in Romania WON’T allow you as a system administrator to opt for Open Source solutions in your infrastructure. They couldn’t explain in details what’s the reason of such “software racism”, but I assume the explication is simple: “In Romania, nobody will take you seriously when talking about Open Source in public and business institutions”.
We badly need a legal foundation in order to continue and support our position, only this way people from IT will join us among the end users.