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Starting a Business as an Open Source Consultant
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| You have to learn to Say No, no matter how hard it is to do so, Jamison says.
| Say No to offers to work for sweat equity, to scope creep from customers, to
| lowering your price. And in open source terms: "We have to say No to working
| with Microsoft technology," he adds. "We didn't start this company to work
| with frickin' Microsoft technology."
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http://www.javaworld.com/community/?q=node/3104
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IT cost-cutting tactics: LinkedIn users tell all
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| Hein Hanssen, senior consultant at Fagro Consultancy in The Netherlands,
| suggests avoiding proprietary software and embracing open source.
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| "The main reason you suffer from increasing (licensing) costs is probably
| that you have reached a point where you suffer from vendor lock-in caused by
| proprietary software," writes Hanssen. "The vendors have you in your grip:
| you can't easily switch. You should have considered this before the current
| crisis."
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| Proprietary software "should be avoided as much as possible," according to
| Hanssen. "Also, avoid as much as possible software that only runs on a single
| platform. Use as much multi-platform software as you can...Try to get as much
| software based on open standards and the open source idea. This, combined
| with all other possible solutions, will prove to be a real cost saver."
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| Many companies are now evaluating open source, says business and technology
| consultant Chip Nickolett.
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http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/64580/it-cost-cutting-tactics-linkedin-users-tell-all
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