Migration Models & Open Source Software

Posted by VISITOR on Oct 28, 2005 11:19 PM EDT
Eye on IT; By Con Zymaris
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How many of these corporate CIOs looked at migration models where, rather than costing a single software refresh cycle, where they moved from Microsoft products to open source competitors, covering the costs for that migration as a one-time-only event, they considered costing models where they included as a minimum two or more software refresh cycles?

One more question. How many organisations do you know that include the cost of decommissioning technology as part of their cost models for acquiring that technology? If, as is so often the case, it costs me an immense amount to move from one technology option to a functional alternative because that original technology option has a very high transition-away cost, where do I, as CIO, place that cost in my TCO analysis? Is it tied to the original technology selection, or do I lumber it with whatever technology I look to replace that original choice with on some latter date?

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