04/06/2006, 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Moderator:
Matt Asay, VP & Conference Chair, Business Development, Alfresco Software.
Speakers:
Terry Barbounis, Chief Technology Officer, The Christian Science Monitor.
Maurizio Ferconi, Managing Director, Financial Engineering, Putnam Investments.
Ron Bongo, CEO, Corra Technology, Inc.
Seth Gottlieb, Content Management Practice Lead, Optaros.
It is (mostly) uncontroversial to say that open source licensing costs are lower than proprietary solutions. But what about the costs of implementing, maintaining, and supporting these systems? Is there a significant cost savings in open source, or is it actually more expensive?
In this session, systems integrators who have extensive experience implementing CRM, ECM, and other open source applications and other software will share their experience, balanced out by enterprise IT buyers who have actually had to foot the bill for open source and proprietary implementations.
Attend to learn what costs you should expect in bringing open source applications into your enterprise, both commercially-supported and community-supported.
