Lourens replying to Alex Daniloff <alex@daniloff.com> wrote: > Hello SuSE folks, > > One big company management is thinking about developing new > software product for engineering applications. > This software should include database, web and desktop interfaces. > There are two possible choices of OS for this product. > Ether they should go with Windoze or make a leap into Linux. > Windoze is less stable and more spendy on license costs and > cost of additional software for DB and so on and so forth, > The company has commercial support from M$ and their executive > droids more familiar with Windows. > Money is not a big issue for them in this case. > > What arguments other than cost and license fees can be made to > convence > executives to give Linux a try. > COMPUTERWORLD.NZ: PAUL VIXIE: OPEN SOURCE THE ONLY WAY FORWARD "'Eventually,' says internet pioneer Paul Vixie, 'even Microsoft will have to embrace open source...'" COMPLETE STORY: http://www.idg.net.nz/webhome.nsf/NL/1B8AEC1796517F55CC256BF30015ADB4 LINUX JOURNAL: IS TRANSPARENCY THE KILLER VIRTUE? "The ace in Linux' hole may go beyond a free and open nature to something more businesses will demand from everything they depend on: transparency..." COMPLETE STORY: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6196&mode=thread&order=0 LINUX JOURNAL: A SUCCESSFUL LINUX/OPEN-SOURCE BUSINESS MODEL "[This article] discusses how to use the Public Domain and community open-source projects to subvert media conglomerates..." COMPLETE STORY: http://www.linuxjournal.com//article.php?sid=6149 LINUXWORLD: TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP SERIES REVISITED "Implicitly this assumes that A and B produce similar value, or returns to ownership. Since this is rarely the case, most uses of the TCO concept in decision making extend the idea beyond a simple "sum of checks written" to incorporate some acknowledgment of the differences in benefits available from each choice -- even when those differences are largely unquantifiable..." COMPLETE STORY: http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/0403.tco.html HTH *** Stay legal - use Free Software! *** Courtesy of SuSE Linux and Open Source Software. Registered Linux User Lourens Steenkamp R.S.A.