:ZDNet: Does Open Source Usage Free Your Budget Up for the Best Talent?
ZDNet: Does Open Source Usage Free Your Budget Up for the Best Talent? Jul 30, 2006, 04 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (6525 reads) (Other stories by David Berlind)
"Here's a great 'opportunity cost' question. It's no secret these days (just look at the gazillions of studies) that it's not necessarily cheaper to run a business with open source software than it is to run 'closed-source' commercial software. The actual costs just show up in different places. But what rarely gets explored are the trade-offs that are made when your fixed budget is spent in different places.
"For example, what would you rather have? A support contract for your IT with a Fortune 500 company? Or, in lieu of that, the very best in-house talent to run your open source-based IT...?"
