Not quite easy and not as simple as you might think. There are costs and overheads (new skills to develop, disruption on established operations, etc.) associated when migrating from one technology to another even if both technologies are all FOSS.
This is also true when forcing all government offices to adopt FOSS and clamor that they will save a lot of money by discarding proprietary software. On 9/22/06, david t. asuncion, jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sana tama ang aking pagkaintindi... Di ba kung pumili ka ng RHEL or SuSE, bagamat may bayad ang mga naturang serbisyo hindi ba't ligtas ka pa rin sa vendor lock-in dahil kung ayaw mo nang mag-avail ng subscription sa Red Hat o Novell dahil sa kaya mo nang wala ang kanilang technical support, puede ka namang makagamit ng CentOS o katumbas (o kaya'y derivative) na Linux Distro o kaya ipagpatuloy ang paggamit ng RHEL kahit walang subscription na kung saan hindi mo na kailangang gumastos pa ng malaki sa switching cost? Ang alam ko rin kapag open source ang ginamit na technology (tama ba ung term?) gaya ng Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc.. mas madali at mas mura na magswitch from one distro to another so sa ganong lagay, walang vendor lockin dahil may choice kang lumipat ng vendor (or distro) na hindi mo kailangang magbuhos ng malaking halaga. I can easily be corrected when I'm wrong. :)
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