Getting paid support is generally possible for most infrastructure
type open source projects.
- MySQL - Pay oracle.
- Linux - Pay Redhat or Canonical
For smaller non infrastructure type projects there is usually a
developer or affiliated company that is happy to take money and be on
a retainer
Money is not an issue in such organizations.
Most of the licenses are all ready bought.
The fast response for new tasks is the main issue.
You get this fast response because there is tons of libraries and code out
there that you can integrate into your solution.
Do it step by step:
First, suggest
Sorry about this not being CakePHP specific, but rather something being
tangentially related to CakePHP. However, in my organization, there is a
serious issue with convincing management that Open Source is a good idea.
As a result we are stuck with using Windows servers and _forced_ to use
Also, what was your experience in a similar situation? How did you
handle it? We're a big organization with at least 20,000 people.
On Sep 27, 10:40 am, Yves S. Garret yoursurrogate...@gmail.com
wrote:
Sorry about this not being CakePHP specific, but rather something being
tangentially
The only argument they will listen to (and should) is money!
Here are some points where they would save money with:
- No Licence costs
- Faster and easier developmnent process
- More secure environment
Thats it from me, but im sure there will be many more posts.
-flosky
Yves S. Garret
Well, in a company with 20.000 employees I can imagine that the License
fees for Windows Servers (there probably are a lot of them) and MSSQL
databases (There probably are a lot of them too) are pretty high. So my
main argument would be the financial savings in licensing costs (running
costs) that
