Comments on: Resources for Go Open Keynote http://zak.greant.com/resources-for-go-open-keynote/ Zak Greant's Blog Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:32:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gen Kanai http://zak.greant.com/resources-for-go-open-keynote/comment-page-1/#comment-532 Gen Kanai Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:48:07 +0000 http://zak.greant.com/?p=510#comment-532 Zak, if I may suggest an addition quote that may be relevant for your speech, from: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39379900,00.htm?r=60 <blockquote>Gartner misses the point that a free licence does more than cut the cost of ownership, said Taylor, pointing out that it provides other benefits. "Licensing is only a slice of the total cost, but historically, companies have only bought as many licences as they can afford. If you remove the licence cost, you may only remove three percent of the of total cost of the existing project, but you also remove the brakes — you massively expand the numbers that project can be rolled out to at no extra cost. "Open source gives massive scalability at no transaction cost, for whatever you are doing," he said.</blockquote> Zak, if I may suggest an addition quote that may be relevant for your speech, from:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39379900,00.htm?r=60

Gartner misses the point that a free licence does more than cut the cost of ownership, said Taylor, pointing out that it provides other benefits. “Licensing is only a slice of the total cost, but historically, companies have only bought as many licences as they can afford. If you remove the licence cost, you may only remove three percent of the of total cost of the existing project, but you also remove the brakes — you massively expand the numbers that project can be rolled out to at no extra cost.

“Open source gives massive scalability at no transaction cost, for whatever you are doing,” he said.

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