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451 CAOS Survey: Open Source Cost Savings
Raven Zachary, September 12, 2006 @ 4:29 pm ETAs part of our ongoing open source research work, we are launching a new survey today. The purpose of this short survey is to collect information on the role of cost savings in open source software adoption. These survey results will be used in a report by our 451 CAOS (Commercial Adoption of Open Source) Research Service. The survey will take no longer than a few minutes to complete.
To participate in this survey, we ask that you have an understanding of your organization’s open source efforts and have an awareness of the IT project approval process, specfically the financial analysis. While the focus of this survey is enterprise IT end users, software vendors that support open source internally are invited to participate as long as responses relate to internal open source usage and not to products or services provided to customers.
Participants will have the option to provide their contact information at the end of this survey to receive free research materials. Members of the 451 CAOS Community will receive the results of this survey in an upcoming report excerpt. Not yet a member? Please join (it’s free) to receive the survey results.
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