You may want to look at <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/products/casestudies">www.ubuntu.com/products/casestudies</a><br><br>I had this same problem myself a few years ago, and what I did was purchase a support contract from HP for my one critical Linux server. Of course I'd recommend Canonical, Ltd (my employer) for this now.
<br><br>As Josh says, the cost of Linux (or any OS) is more than the sticker cost. My employer's support pricing can be seen here:<br><a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid">http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid</a>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 14, 2007 10:39 AM, Aaron Korver <<a href="mailto:aaron.korver@gmail.com">aaron.korver@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi everyone,<br>I was wondering if anyone had any resources for PHBs regarding open source software?<br><br>Mainly I'm being asked about trends with open source and ROI; case studies would also be great. Really any official looking documents with graphs and stats would suffice. :-)
<br><br>My audience for these papers are very skeptical about the value of open source. They are used to buying large software contract with the big name companies and using anything with a monetary cost of Zero scares them. Thus it is my task to educate them on the benefits of using open source in the enterprise.
<br><br>Thanks,<br><font color="#888888">Aaron Korver<br>
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