Apparently, "Understanding the True Costs" of open source involves paying just shy of $1600 to Gartner. And apparently, you'll get good advice like, "'By 2010, most IT organizations will have formal Open Source management and acquisition strategies.'" Yeah. OK, _I'll_ give away some understanding about the true costs of open source: save $1600 and don't listen to a thing Gartner says, because they don't understand open source.
<br><br>[aj]<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott Walters</b> <<a href="mailto:scott@illogics.org">scott@illogics.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi everyone,<br><br>Muahahaha!<br><br>Richard Dice, host of one of the previous YAPCs, leader of<br>Toronto.PM, and an active member of the Perl community, is<br>expect to be here Sept 27-29. I'd like to call a social<br>
meeting in his honor. Also, he wonders, if I have any<br>Gartner connections to help get him into this conference:<br><br><a href="http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/os2.jsp">http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/os2.jsp
</a><br><br>I don't know whether I do or not -- do I?<br><br>Cheers,<br>-scott<br>_______________________________________________<br>Phoenix-pm mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Phoenix-pm@pm.org">Phoenix-pm@pm.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm">
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