the business justification adds cost of parts plus labor and weighs the
sum against the commercial and proprietary counterparts. when the
number of users exceeds the crossover point whereby costs of deployment
are less important than costs of client access licenses, open source
software will dominate the marketplace.
regards,
jim
ps you might wanna check into getting some of maria's books to set out
at the biz expo:
http://www.neuse.net/opensource.shtml
Jim Ray, President
Neuse River Network, Inc.
tel: 919-838-1672 x111
toll free: 800-617-7652
http://www.Neuse.Net
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Tom Eisenmenger wrote:
This is a very opportune discussion - on May 2-3 I am planning on
attending the local (Roanoke Rapids) Business Expo (I run a part-time IT
consulting business which becomes full-time during the summer months).
My intention is to promote Linux and Open Source vigorously at my booth
(my catchphrase for the Expo: "Real Geeks Know More Than One OS"). I
have 50 Ubuntu CD sets on order which I'll distribute at the show and am
currently putting together promotional materials. If someone could
direct me to a concise (i.e. able to fit easily in a brochure) business
justification for OSS I'd surely appreciate it! If you have any other
suggestions, I'd appreciate them as well.
Tom Eisenmenger
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