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    Ten Reasons to Buy / Not Buy Open Source

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    May 28, 2012
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      Ten Reasons to Buy Open Source

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      1) Your Peers Will Think You’re Cool

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      2) Microsoft Executives Are Rich Enough

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      3) The CFO Will Give You a Big Raise for Saving Money

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      4) Microsoft Will Pay More Attention to You

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      5) IBM, Oracle and Everybody Else Will Pay More Attention to You

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      6) Easier to Recruit College Graduates

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      7) Lower Application Development Costs

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      8) Access to Free Worldwide Support Network

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      9) Higher-Quality Software Because of Peer Review

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      10) No Need to Manage Windows Software Licenses

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      1) Microsoft Is the Safe Choice

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      2) Richer Set of Application Development Tools

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      3) Larger Number of Packaged Applications Available

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      4) Desktop Linux Is Immature and Perhaps Unnecessary

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      5) Technical Support Costs Are Actually Higher than Microsoft.Net

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      6) Windows Environments Have Better Management Tools

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      7) Richer Layer for Application and Business Process Integration Middleware

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      8) More Focused Commercial Technical Support from Microsoft

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      9) Microsoft.Net Creates End-to-End Framework That Offers Lower TCO

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      10) Microsoft Will Try to Convince Your CEO That You’re an Idiot If You Do

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