[ Thanks to Chris
Bergeron for this link. ]
“Measuring return on investment is always a tricky prospect.
Properly assessing a software’s future value and savings versus
it’s roll-out cost requires more than a peripheral knowledge of the
software involved. This guide attempts to enable the reader to ask
the right questions.“As the title suggests, ‘The Practical Manager’s Guide to Open
Source’ is aimed squarely at people in charge of managing software.
Decision makers deciding what to deploy or trying to make a case
for using OSS (and specifically Linux) would benefit from the
arguments presented…”