On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:05, Ann Moffatt wrote: > craig i do see your points on cost, openness etc but believe me these > arguments don't impress an exec whose own salary/status is > proportional to his/her budget. > > if the costs you control are less you don't need to be paid so much!! > > wrong i know but its the way the world is unfortunately. you have to > find reasons that will enhance the exec's status not diminish it!!
A wonderful insight! I suppose a better argument would be that an OSS solution has a much lower marginal cost for additional units (in hardware, software, and administration) thus allowing a larger and more useful solution for the same $. With increases in $ giving a much bigger increase in solution than a proprietry platform. Regards Gordon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
