Your Open Source Plan
Christopher Koch,
CIO magazine,
Mar 25, 2003
This article, as George Siemens comments is interestingly placed in CIO Magazine, reports "huge savings in total cost of ownership" in the use of open source software. It also points to the fact that companies looking for custom software development are increasingly receiving RFPs recommending an open source solution. "Free is good. CIOs who don't come to terms with this revolution in 2003 will be paying too much for IT in 2004." How can this possibly work? It turns out that not everybody is motivated by money. "Heroism in these communities means proposing an interesting improvement and getting everyone to acknowledge it. That's the way these guys get their strokes—everyone recognizes that their way of doing it is the best way."
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