A reason we don't hit enough...
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| dinotrac Oct 09, 2005 6:03 AM EDT |
There is one argument we don't use enough with larger enterprises: The freedom to configure, mold and run according to your business needs rather than your vendors' license requirements. Large IT operations tend to have some clever people aboard and often wish to do things in a particular way. Licensing terms can affect that in ways both subtle and not so subtle. The not so subtle way is obvious: You either have the budget for the things you need or you don't. The subtle way less obvious: having spent umpteen dollars on software, you're not about to put that stuff on relatively cheap hardware ... or ... you buy very pricy high-end hardware in the hope that you will need fewer machines and thus fewer licenses. With free software, you configure what you need. Want to run a pilot? Grab some workable "junk" machines and set your developers/testers/guinea pigs to work. Take what you learned to guide your final configuration. And so on and so forth. Freedom, you see, is good for business, too. |
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