On Wednesday 11 May 2005 4:25 pm, Ryan McCain wrote:
I am giving a presentation in a few weeks to some very big wigs w/in my company as to why we should offer open source solutions on proposals and also implement open source solutions where it makes sense internally. rather than me re-inventing the wheel, does anyone know of any good presentations (or any info) directed towards the executive level audience? Here are a couple of references to the State of Massachusetts decision, which they have backed off from a bit. http://news.oreillynet.com/pub/n/Mass_Open_Systems2 http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1_gci930055,...
Also check Eric Raymond's OSI site. Lots of good information you can use
there.
http://www.opensource.org/
http://www.opensource.org/advocacy/case_for_business.php
Also note that OpenSource is supported by many of the major computer
hardware vendors, such as IBM and HP, both of whom are also proprietary
software vendors.
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Jerry Feldman