<p dir="ltr">It is extremely rare for businesses to pick software off the shelf and deploy without support or customization. This is true for both commercial and open source software.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In my experience open source software has a significantly lower total cost of ownership at enterprise level. This is primarily due to the nature of commercial software licensing agreements and support contracts.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 3, 2013 6:55 AM, "Israel Pascal" <<a href="mailto:israel.pascal10@gmail.com">israel.pascal10@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Guys,<br></div>Open source softwares cost more than commercial softwares, there are some hidden cost which you will pay consultants, commercial software you just pick from the shelve and install but open source you will have to contact consultants who build the software so that he/she can set it up to fit your needs. Advantage of open source is that you can customize to fit to your needs and no licence fee.<br>
<br><br><br></div>Israel<br><div><br><br><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Hamisi Jabe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:administrator@banana.co.tz" target="_blank">administrator@banana.co.tz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Your point is good ismail, its targeting development for sure, but even if<br>
we reduce cost by using open source softwares to bring up the economy. the<br>
money will be spent unwisely kama kawaida.<br>
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Someone was asking, Obama is leading a big nation if he is given only<br>
Tanzania will he be able to lead???????<br>
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> True, in fact recently NASA also made Linux their official Operating<br>
> System.<br>
><br>
> Vipi, Tanzania, if the rich guys a changing we the poor should also see<br>
> the<br>
> smart economics of this..?..;-)<br>
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> --<br>
> Ismail<br>
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> "Education is not the learning of facts but, the training of the mind to<br>
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> On 31 May 2013 21:43, Andreas Tauscher <<a href="mailto:ta@lonestar-bbs.de" target="_blank">ta@lonestar-bbs.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> In May 2003 the city administration of Munich started to migrate to<br>
>> OpenSource.<br>
>> On the Linux Tag conference last week held in Berlin the project manager<br>
>> announced: Done!<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/LinuxTag-LiMux-firmly-established-in-Munich-1867920.html" target="_blank">http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/LinuxTag-LiMux-firmly-established-in-Munich-1867920.html</a><br>
>><br>
>> <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/city-munich-migration-sustainable-desktop-completed-successfully" target="_blank">https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/city-munich-migration-sustainable-desktop-completed-successfully</a><br>
>><br>
>> A nice anecdote: Because of the Munich announcement to migrate to Open<br>
>> Source Bill Gates visited the Munich Major Ude and asked him why they<br>
>> want to do so.<br>
>> Ude: "We want more freedom."<br>
>> Gates: "Freedom from what?"<br>
>> Ude: "Freedom from you, Mr. Gates!"<br>
>><br>
>> Andi<br>
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