Free not so Free
October 17th, 2008 by 
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As a company, always be on the lookout what you are purchasing.
Sometimes free may cost money…
And don’t be too stingy to save everything. … buying expertise, support and insurance could well be a good investment if you are already saving a lot.
‘Free lunch’ and open-source support |- CNET News
Sometimes “free” is not so free.I recently discovered this when a large, global system integrator (SI) deployed Alfresco Labs, our free and unsupported product, for a large client in Europe. The SI wasn’t a partner of ours, and as the client soon learned when its deployment stumbled, the SI wasn’t capable of providing enterprise-class support on the product. Yes, it knew the product well enough to deploy it and get paid over $50 million for its trouble, but when the deployment hit a glitch, guess to whom the SI came crawling for help
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