Comments on: Open Source Consulting… http://way2top.org/business/open-source-consulting/44/ Bharanidharan Viswanathan Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:05:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bhargava Janakiraman http://way2top.org/business/open-source-consulting/44/#comment-168 Bhargava Janakiraman Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:40:46 +0000 http://way2top.org/?p=44#comment-168 Hope you remember me.... how are you doing and howz life going on. There are firms doing open source consulting in india... join blug & lug and you will hear a lot abt them... also have a look at exocore.com. Cheers Hope you remember me…. how are you doing and howz life going on. There are firms doing open source consulting in india… join blug & lug and you will hear a lot abt them…

also have a look at exocore.com.

Cheers

]]> By: Bharani http://way2top.org/business/open-source-consulting/44/#comment-158 Bharani Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:53:21 +0000 http://way2top.org/?p=44#comment-158 Jeeva, Cost aspect is not the only winning factor. The business aims at customers who are interested in implementing open-source solutions, who are contemplating whether to go for open-source route... Web 2.0 is gathering momentum partly because of open-source technologies and solutions. "End-to-end how many of us have seen?"...Well, you need to have consultants, who have seen different implementations... It is a very niche business...Google search results shows examples of the business...I did not do a thorough business case evaluation... Jeeva, Cost aspect is not the only winning factor. The business aims at customers who are interested in implementing open-source solutions, who are contemplating whether to go for open-source route…

Web 2.0 is gathering momentum partly because of open-source technologies and solutions.

“End-to-end how many of us have seen?”…Well, you need to have consultants, who have seen different implementations…

It is a very niche business…Google search results shows examples of the business…I did not do a thorough business case evaluation…

]]> By: Chiranth http://way2top.org/business/open-source-consulting/44/#comment-151 Chiranth Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:08:20 +0000 http://way2top.org/?p=44#comment-151 @jeeva Yep, your right that it's not the cost factor *alone* that would appeal to the CIOs and other CXOs. If a non-technology company's work is highly dependend on IT, it might make sense for it to choose software whose development it can influence. Open source gives a company the opportunity to transform itself from an IT-client to an IT-participant. Whether or not this is beneficial is a different question. @jeeva
Yep, your right that it’s not the cost factor *alone* that would appeal to the CIOs and other CXOs.

If a non-technology company’s work is highly dependend on IT, it might make sense for it to choose software whose development it can influence. Open source gives a company the opportunity to transform itself from an IT-client to an IT-participant. Whether or not this is beneficial is a different question.

]]> By: jeeva http://way2top.org/business/open-source-consulting/44/#comment-150 jeeva Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:29:49 +0000 http://way2top.org/?p=44#comment-150 Who would be the customers? and how many of us have the experience of seing begining to end of open source deployment in a corporate/govt or even SME segement? Do you agree that for big organizations People cost is more than 60% of an IT development?(If it was 10% of the total build cost, why offshore?). Let say on a $20m initiative, what would be saving by using Opensource? IMO Cost aspect of opensource dont seem to appeal to a CIOs and other decision makers down the chain. Who would be the customers? and how many of us have the experience of seing begining to end of open source deployment in a corporate/govt or even SME segement?

Do you agree that for big organizations People cost is more than 60% of an IT development?(If it was 10% of the total build cost, why offshore?). Let say on a $20m initiative, what would be saving by using Opensource? IMO Cost aspect of opensource dont seem to appeal to a CIOs and other decision makers down the chain.

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