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May 20, 2004
What - no price tag?
Frank had an interesting comment to make on the last post - and I would like to "raise" his comment to a blog posting - as it would be interesting to get some comments on his comment (if you see what I mean). Here it is:
An interesting comment by a friend this week: there are lots of studies by the big consulting companies out there that leave the OSS solutions out because they can't put a price tag on them, and that would make their comparison more difficult. He mentioned an expensive study on Application Servers not mentioning JBoss - and a portal study not mentioning Cocoon.
Is this something that's common out there? I mean Open Source solutions being disregarded is studies because the "consultants" (duh) can't put a price tag on them and therefore leave them out?
Posted by Matthew at May 20, 2004 10:51 PM