[pchelpers] News:The SME Guide to Open Source

Author: Dr. Graham Oakes, Director of Graham Oakes Ltd
Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 12:29 GMT

The general view of open source software is that it is free; however, as 
with many things in business, information technology is never that easy. 
Switching to open source needs to involve careful planning and 
consideration of the business benefits and potential downsides to such a 
migration.

The idea behind open source is simple. Anyone can access the software 
from the internet without paying license or maintenance charges. 
Programmers can review the source code and fix bugs or add features and 
then redistribute it. With all those people checking it, it is less 
likely to contain defects than many commercial packages, hence less 
susceptible to be attacked by hackers.

More here:
http://www.snpx.com/cgi-bin/news55.cgi?target=100407894?-2622

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