Mark Uemura, IT manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Japan, was hired into a veritable IT crucible of unstable servers, proprietary services, and an extremely tight budget.

"PricewaterhouseCoopers is a Windows shop but we were forced to use open source," he said. "I inherited a real nightmare with servers going up and down. There were e-mail outages and on top of that there was a bad relationship between our users and IT." ... Faced with an unreliable network, Uemura went ahead and migrated systems from Windows to OpenBSD on the premise that management would trust his judgement.

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