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Jon "maddog" Hall Viewpoint: Total Cost vs. Return on Investment
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| Why Does FOSS Typically Give Better ROI?
|
| Imagine if you were trying to glue two
| glass rods together. Each of the glass rod
| ends is shiny and smooth, and the glue
| can't get a good grip on the glass. It
| might hold for a few minutes, but
| eventually the glue will lose its grip. If
| you could take a bit of sandpaper and rough
| up the surfaces, the glue could get a
| better grip, and the rods might stay glued
| together.
|
| Consider the same analogy with software:
| With two pieces of CSPS software you can't
| âsandâ them to make them integrate better.
| Any integration has to be done with the
| provided APIs that you have (if any). With
| FOSS software, you could change the source
| code of the two pieces and get them to
| integrate better. You can formulate a
| better integration than if the software was
| âclosed.â This is the core of the argument
| around ROI: the ability to change the
| software to meet your business needs.
|
| CSPS advocates will argue that the
| companies that produce the software can
| integrate it for you. I find it hard to
| believe that large software companies will
| allow the types of integration that will be
| mentioned in the following ROI examples.
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http://www.linux.com/news/biz-os/governance/315086:jon-qmaddogq-hall-viewpoint-total-cost-vs-return-on-investment
Large VARs add open source to armoury
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| The growing acceptance of open-source
| software has forced some of the UKâs
| largest VARs to break from a proprietary-
| only strategy for the first time.
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http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn/news/2264292/large-vars-adding-open-source
Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies?
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| Indeed, I would go so far as to say that
| very few open source startups will ever get
| anywhere near to $1 billion. Not because
| they are incompetent, or because open
| source will âfailâ in any sense. But
| because the economics of open source
| software â and therefore the business
| dynamics â are so different from those of
| traditional software that it simply won't
| be possible in most markets. Red Hat stands
| a chance because it has (wisely) colonised
| the biggest sector, that of enterprise
| infrastructural products - âwe are
| plumbersâ, as Whitehurst put it with brutal
| frankness.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=3010&blogid=14
Recent:
7 (More) Free and Open Source Finance/Accounting Software for Linux
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| Since our collection of Free and Open
| Source finance/accounting software for
| Linux has been quite popular, I would like
| to add 7 more to that list. As I've said
| before, finance or accounting software will
| prove valuable for those who have small or
| medium-sized business as it will allow
| users to do important tasks like recording
| and processing accounting transactions
| within functional modules such as accounts
| receivable, accounts payable, payroll, and
| trial balance.
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http://www.junauza.com/2010/03/7-more-free-and-open-source.html
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