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- Lower total cost of ownership
- Reduced dependence on software vendors
- Easier to customize
- Higher level of security
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Open Source Does Have Advantages
Our survey offered respondents a choice of five advantages for open source.The results of the survey are shown in the chart below.

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IT decision makers recognize that open source software is not really free. With most types of software, administration and support costs overshadow initial software license cost and annual maintenance fees--the costs that are minimized by open source
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Whether open source software is less costly to administer than proprietary software depends largely on a ready pool of resources trained on the system, the availability of administration tools that allow system administrators to manage a greater number of systems, and the number of version upgrades and patches that are issued by the developer. In this regard, open source software may have little if any advantage over proprietary software, although the situation varies from application to applicati
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For example, when Microsoft announces a new version of its Windows Server operating system, it invariably phases out support for older versions of the system
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Michael WarnickComputer Economics recently conducted a survey of visitors to its website regarding the perceived advantages in the use of open source software. Although not a scientific sample, the results are nevertheless startling.
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- Lower total cost of ownership
- Reduced dependence on software vendors
- Easier to customize
- Higher level of security
- Do not see a significant advantage
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OITC-Richsurvey - unscientific, but interesting - shows reasons respondents think open source is an advantage
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