Open Source: The Whole Product

Perhaps you're stuck in the darkness and would much prefer to use a LAMP (lest you be eaten by a EULA). It can be difficult to convince a highly conservative, risk-averse company that open source software is valuable and, possibly, even better as a strategy. Fear not. Bernard Golden provides the ammunition you might need in Open Source: the Whole Product. Here's how to consider open source software, documentation, and support as really good for business -- even better than the proprietary alternatives.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/10/16/whole_product.html
(O'Reilly OnLamp, Oct.16, 2003)

Posted by Tom on October 22, 2003