Best Buy and Open Source

Best Buy is one of those companies that loves Microsoft.  So I was particularly happy when I saw this announcement come across about Best Buy Idea X:

“a website where you can share, vote for, and discuss ideas that will help make Best Buy a better company. The site is built using Ruby on Rails and runs in Amazon’s Compute Cloud.”

Maybe open source and cloud computing isn’t so bad, ‘eh? Beautiful looking site too.

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  1. Thomas Bohmbach, Jr.
    July 10, 2009 at 11:08 am

    That’s not all. Parts of Best Buy really, really like open source.

    There’s also giftag.com, developed by the same group as Idea X, that runs on Google App Engine and has spawned open-source utilities that were written while developing the site.

    Full disclosure, I am one of the contractor developers that worked on it.