[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“As long as cost-cutting dominates the IT landscape the rush by
enterprises to seek out Linux and open source alternatives will
continue, despite the fact it isn’t any cheaper than proprietary
software, Meta research director Dr Kevin McIsaac said last
week.“‘Frankly, open source is no cheaper than proprietary software,
because the biggest cost is support,’ he said adding that in-house
support is not a viable option…”