total cost of IT

Forrester Research have a new report out saying that open source databases such as MySQL, Ingres and Enterprise DB are cheaper than their proprietary rivals by approximately 60% for databases less than 300GB. Cost here includes staffing, training, hardware, software and so forth, not merely the cost of licencing the software (which in the open source case is typically zero).

While it must be admitted that Forrester Research has been slated for partisanship in the past (and has a business model that encourages outlandish headlines), this is great news. I've not read the report (Forrester which is not freely available).

Coverage at WhatPC?

cheers

stuart

In this 25 minute recording, Bill Hogue hosts an interview with Laurie Antolovic, CFO of Indiana University's Office of the Vice President for Research and Information Technology. Listen in as they chat about funding IT, the role of a CFO, and the vices and virtues of open source software.