On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Drexx Laggui [personal] <[email protected]> wrote: > 31Mar2011 (UTC +8) > > In the corporate environment, a lot of executives and business owners > are close-minded about open-source. They say that the Total Cost of > Ownership (TCO) is higher for open-source application than for > commercial proprietary software, it's hard to get technical support, > and that they'd waste too much time on vulnerability mailing lists. > > I argue that the same issues for both open-source and proprietary > software are the *same.* But to talk in their language, you'd have to > present open-source as part of the enterprise's investment portfolio, > and manage IT just as they would for other types of assets. Here's a > tool that I use to help organize my arguments for open-source: > > http://www.isaca.org/Journal/Past-Issues/2008/Volume-3/Documents/jpdf0803-using-cobiT-4.1.pdf > > >
Good luck! Been there done that. Its really very hard for traditional businessmen to see any value in using open source. If a business does not collaborate in open source then they cannot do business with or use open source. -- quarq consulting: agile, open source _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
