[ale] Any Input Would Be Appreciated!

[Greg Freemyer]

On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 19:07, Parker McGee wrote:
> I'm writing an essay for College English about open source development
> and users, and the motivations behind it.  If you could answer these
> questions, it would help me greatly!  The more people the better!
> Thanks!
> 
> 1) Why do you use open source software?  What makes it "better" than
> proprietary?  Can you think of any specific examples?
> 

Advanced features at a reasonable cost.

For instance I am in the middle of quoting a application server with 5
TB of storage needs with snapshots and remote mirroring capability.

I'm still putting together the numbers for the customer, but using Linux
will likely save $50K to $100K.

I will still be quoting high-quality servers and storage.  (Likely HP
Itanium Servers and HP MSA-1500 storage).

Also I will likely add in a linux support contract from Novell (SLES
9.0).

Without Linux, the commercial products to provide disk snapshots and
remote disk replication are extremely expensive.  In this case I will
have to quote a HP EVA storage array because the MSA line does not
support those features.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer