[Cialug] Resources for convincing enterprises to go with open source

[Aaron Korver]

Oddly enough, we do have Novell and SUSE in house.  I'm currently trying to
get them to use Subversion for source control and the topic of open source
came up.  So now my roadblock isn't that Subversion won't fit the needs.  My
roadblock is the FUD that my PHBs have with open source.  Even though, we
currently are using different open source tools and products already in
house.

Strange but true.

On Nov 14, 2007 10:49 AM, Josh More <morej at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:

> Check out the "Why Linux" links at  http://www.novell.com/linux/
>
> The biggest trick is to not sell it with a monetary cost of Zero.  Sell
> them SLES and have them get the maintenance contract from Novell.  Then
> they're paying money and getting a value from it.
>
> It also sometimes helps to bring an outsider in to talk to them.
> That's where sales guys come in.  If you need a Novell/SLES sales guy, I
> could lend you mine.  ;)  If you want to go the RHEL route, call their
> sales department and see if they have someone local.  If you want to go
> Ubuntu, talk to Matthew.  I hear that they have a sales person in the US
> now.
>
>
>
>
> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC
>  morej at alliancetechnologies.net
>  515-245-7701
>
>
>
> >>> "Aaron Korver" <aaron.korver at gmail.com> 11/14/07 10:39 AM >>>
> Hi everyone,
> I was wondering if anyone had any resources for PHBs regarding open
> source
> software?
>
> 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.  :-)
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron Korver
>
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