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Australian Senate Hears Open Source Is Too Expensive
schliz writes "The Australian Government Information Management Office says that a platform change to open source could cost more than it saves. It was pushed to investigate open source software to reduce its AUD$500m budget at a Senate meeting yesterday. From the article: 'Agencies are obliged to consider value for money on each occasion they apply a software,' spokesperson Graham Fry said. 'If the cost of assessing it [open source] was greater than the cost of the software, you would have to think twice.'"
...or of mere stupidity, if that's a simpler explanation?
Yeah, you also have vendor lock-in with reiserfs.
How'd that Gmail outage work for you?
You must be an Exchange admin. There have been three disruptions in two years, only one had any impact on business operations and that was only for a couple hours. Not enough to justify the cost difference.
How's that new cubicle working out for you?
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
how do you manage your data retention policy, backups, disaster recovery, etc with gmail? Hope and pray that Google maintain their free service to a standard your business expects?
Perhaps gmail forwards everything to a company hotmail account.