Moving to an Open Source World

Costs

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This video segment discusses open source software’s reputation as a cost-saving measure. It points out that upfront fees and ongoing licensing costs can be lower or even zero, but costs elsewhere can be higher. This segment makes clear that an OSS cost model is not necessarily lower, just different.

Keywords

  • Total cost of ownership
  • sales
  • licensing
  • installation
  • customisation
  • operations
  • updates
  • training

About this video

Author(s)
Karl Beecher
First online
25 December 2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4441-8_1
Online ISBN
978-1-4842-4441-8
Publisher
Apress
Copyright information
© Karl Beecher 2019