Computer Economics: Key Advantage of Open Source is Not Cost Savings

“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.

“As nearly everyone knows, open source software is a low cost
alternative to proprietary software. For example, the open source
Linux operating system is commonly seen as a low cost alternative
to Microsoft’s Server 2003 operating system, or Sun’s version of
Unix. The popularity of open source is seen in the fact that today
the largest market share for web servers is held by the open source
Apache system…”

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