Yup. Buy, build, and borrow are pretty good categories.
But sometimes you _think_ you're buying, but you really end up borrowing
or even building. Other times, you can know and plan on borrowing or
building even when you buy a proprietary vendor product.
And as Ed mentions, another very
Quoting Frumkin, Jeremy frumk...@u.library.arizona.edu:
In general, a Buy approach is easiest to determine TCO, while a
Build approach is the most difficult. Generally, there are more
unknowns with a Build than there are with a Buy. The more unknowns,
the greater risk of
Karen,
I would argue that in the cases you described below, one is not simply
Buying. You are Buying+Building. Unfortunately sometimes decision
makers may not recognize this, or don't take it into account. I think
that is something that Jeremy hints at when he says Open Source can be
a buy. My
