[LINK] Show me the money
grove at zeta.org.au
grove at zeta.org.au
Wed Oct 29 09:22:34 AEDT 2008
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> I wonder what the savings to the Australian Tax payer if all governments
> switched to Apache. Though this wouldn't necessarily be savings, it would be
> money available to do more things. I would call that an efficiency dividend!
We at <some_uni> are looking for cost cuts in some IT areas.
Mentioning Apache (or perl or postgres or mysql) is anathema to the
management. If it ain't shrink wrapped and comes with a EULA,
it's obviously not a product. Even our Directory Services project
is under tender with the CAUDIT offering of Sun One IDM etc which is
mostly free having to compete with products that cost $$$$$$ because
of some stupid feature or another. And our policy is not to write code in house,
so every time I mention that whatever product they get is going to require
some sort of glue code, I get the daggers.
When I was at the VC's forum, I mentioned wastage (not being specific)
and she appeared to be interested, but management driving the processes
just wastes anyway.
rachel
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