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Key Advantage of Open Source is Not Cost Savings

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-do-you-think dept.

cmcsonar writes "Computer Economics recently conducted a survey of visitors to its website regarding the perceived advantages in the use of open source software. Although not a scientific sample, the results are nevertheless startling."

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  1. Re:How much would google have spent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    I don't know their pricing, but I guess cost does matter as you scale up.

    Indeed, Microsoft may be find for small systems and hobby use, but when you scale up proprietary software becomes a worse and worse choice. I had an interesting experience in a startup company when Yahoo was considering to buy our company. They sent a bunch of people over to review our technology; and when we mentioned our databases ran Oracle, one of the guys looked to our CFO and told him "you shouldn't have let them do that". "Why not", our CFO asked - since he was one of the guys orginally insisting that to be taken seriously we'd neet to have top-tier components everywhere. The Yahoo guy's response: "Well, Oracle may scale well technologically, but it doesn't scale financially".