"damorgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
news:3CA3B0EB.1B2B7AF9_at_exesolutions.com...
> Lets be honest here folks. If you can do it in Linux, MySQL, Apache, and
Star
> Office you have no business spending money on anything else. To do so is
> fiscally irresponsible.
>
Hogwash. Purchasing costs are a tiny fraction of the outlay on software. My
users have extraordinary trouble using even MS Office properly - and it is
streets ahead of its competitors in usability. Support, training and
implementation costs are all higher with open source. It doesn't mean open
source software doesn't have a place in business in my view it does- but it
aint always cheaper (though it can be better value for money just as oracle
can).
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
Received on Fri Mar 29 2002 - 07:54:00 CST
