> No license fees is huge. My company saves tens of thousands on license fees when we can't really afford it. It isn't always about affording it, it's about ri

> No license fees is huge. My company saves tens of thousands on license fees when we can't really afford it. It isn't always about affording it, it's about risk reduction, or the perception thereof: Every single time the company I work for has to renew a license, it has to once again initiate the long, painful process of finding its ass with both hands. "Why are we paying for this? Who exactly is using it? Why are they using it? How much will this cost? Can we make it cost less? Given that it's impossible for us to negotiate this cost, how can we make the company we're licensing it from not charge us as much money as it's inevitably going to? When is this license due? Why hasn't IT, which has no purchasing authority, fixed this yet?" With Postgres and CentOS and other OSS, none of that happens. The C-levels never know, so they never get a chance to do their headless-chicken dance routine. Much more relaxing.