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

[Matthew Nuzum]

You may want to look at www.ubuntu.com/products/casestudies

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.

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:
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid

On Nov 14, 2007 10:39 AM, Aaron Korver <aaron.korver at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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