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Total cost of software ownership

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/07/08/software-total-cost-of-ownership/

by p3ll0n • 16 years ago

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troygoode• 16 years ago

My personal belief is that MOST of the time, open source will still win out - but that isn't some sort of fundamental rule of the universe. Any discussion of TCO that doesn't bring up support is missing the mark.

In this particular example I agree 7zip is a better choice, but many other open source projects either have a paid support plan or lackluster support (meaning you'll be supporting it yourself). Both of those scenarios need to be calculated into the TCO.

hga• 16 years ago

One thing I heard quite a bit in the previous decade plus was that most corporate copying of non-free software wasn't due to budget but friction, of the sort the author details plus what most corporations shackle themselves with.

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