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Note that open-source isn't always a shoo-in for the lowest cost solution. For any significant software investment the total cost involves: initial purchase pr
by gav 14y ago
Note that open-source isn't always a shoo-in for the lowest cost solution.
For any significant software investment the total cost involves: initial purchase price; hardware; installation and (data) migration; integration with existing (or new) systems; ongoing support and maintenance; training and retraining.
In a lot of cases the latter dominate the initial cost.
- Evbn 14y agoOpen source is not the same gratis, so there is non reason to suspect it would be lowest cost for any non-appliance product. But open source has a free market of maintenance industry, instead of a monopoly, which pushes prices down in general.