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Kiringai, <br>
thanks for your thoughts but I cannot quite follow your argument. Or
rather, you are just reiterating an old claim by some proprietary
vendors stating that their software provides more operations
security <i>due to being developed in a proprietary model</i>. This
claim has never been evidenced and probably cannot be proven anyway.
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Please excuse me if I misunderstood your argument. <br>
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Thanks,<br>
Arnulf<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 29.03.2017 um 05:50 schrieb Kiringai
Kamau:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Steven this has been the experience of many corporates as theyrise the ladder of visibility. Indeed from an operations security perspective proprietary solutions end up being cheaper and secure making corporates migrate to proprietary ones.
However, if the desire is to just collect data fir value added analytics it's best to retain the open source dynamic. Proper planning always guides the best model to use.
Kiringai
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<pre wrap="">On 25 Mar 2017, at 20:06, Steven Feldman <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com"><shfeldman@gmail.com></a> wrote:
Implementation, customisation, integration, training, ongoing support, maintenance and hosting are the main costs regardless of whether the underlying software is proprietary or open source
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