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Big Software has duped us for decades â Part I
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| Big Software Goliaths like Oracle (ORCL),
| Microsoft (MSFT), Sybase (SY) and SAP (SAP) use
| multi-year enterprise license agreements that
| lock you into annual fees that go up, but can
| almost never be reduced. They encourage you to
| make large upfront purchases of software
| licenses by providing significant volume
| discounts. Volume discounts are common in the
| software industry and help you achieve a lower
| price-point on your software licenses and
| annual support fees. However, encouraging you
| to purchase larger quantities than you need
| often leads to âshelfwareâ, i.e., owning a
| whole lot of software you donât use.
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http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/10/23/big-software-has-duped-us-for-decades-part-i/
Training and Support: Still Key to Enterprise Open Source Adoption
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| Silicon.com recently conducted its latest
| iteration of its IT Jury, where it gathers 12
| CIO-level IT adminstrators and guages their
| opinions on various topics. In the latest poll,
| the jury decided that the costs of migration to
| open source alternatives to their proprietary
| software were prohibitive, primarily due to
| retraining and similar support needs.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/training-and-support-still-key-to-enterprise-open-source-adoption
Recent:
Ingres Open Source Solutions Help Slash Costs for Department of Education and Training in Western Australia
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| Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company
| and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, announced today that The
| Department of Education and Training in Western Australia (WA DET) is
| harnessing the power of Ingres Database to build a range of complex
| applications to manage administrative activities and programs delivered by
| 11 colleges and 8,000 staff
| throughout the state. The systems also collectively manage in excess of 1
| million student records, with 120,000 students processed through the
| state`s training systems annually.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS106885+09-Sep-2009+BW20090909
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