What the New York Times CIO asks when evaluating open source solutions

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The Enterprisers Project
Mar 26, 2015

In this interview, New York Times CIO Marc Frons explains how his teams evaluate whether to use open source or proprietary software and the simple question that helps guide the conversation.

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