Open-source says goodbye huge licence fees, welcome to high quality software

"There was a time when the open-source movement was considered a little too risque for buttoned down, conservative IT buyers.

Executives could never be fired for forking out excessive fees on software licences. It was considered good practice..."

Then Phil Andrews comes in:

""Businesses no longer have to pay huge licence fees to get high quality software"

According to Andrews, there are three types of IT decision-makers: traditional chief information officers (CIO's), who are still wary of open source but are fed up with paying large licence fees; CIO's who are focused on the next generation of cloud systems and are already embracing open source; and the laggards who still fear open source.

Open-source is tried and tested and most large organisations are running mission critical projects on supported platforms, " he said..."

Indeed. 

And finally he talks of the decision businesses are now faced with:

""A lot of IT budgets are 80% 'lights-on' and 20% is given over to innovation", he said.

"Traditional systems are beginning to crumble and many are making the move from old Unix systems to x86 servers, and that's when the decision is normally made to remain traditional and pay large licence fees or embrace open-source and free budget up for innovation..."

Absolutely. And as well as freeing up the budget for innovation, it is also freed up for more in depth business analysis, implementation and user training. 

Happy to see this message getting out there.