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[Kiringai Kamau]

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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> On 25 Mar 2017, at 20:06, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Implementation, customisation, integration, training, ongoing support, maintenance and hosting are the main costs regardless of whether the underlying software is proprietary or open source