Free Software, Get What You Pay For?

An anonymous reader writes "The Xooglers blog is running an interesting article on how big businesses may start out running free software but there is always the continued question of 'Should we go with something "real"?' at some point in their evolution. How often are technologies like PHP, Perl, and MySQL being pushed out once startups get managers who know nothing about the technology and only worry about name brands?"

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Re:sometimes that's the only criterion

[yagu]

shazbot, I hate replying to myself with followup, but for those who care, the book I mentioned above is: Influence: Science and Practice. It's a great book, it's worth reading, it illustrates exactly why people choose things expensive when they have no other criteria by which they can determine value, and, it is on topic! :-)