SAP: We spend lots of money, therefore we provide value
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| We ran out of time, but I had raised my hand to ask Mr. Agassi why it
| takes him $1.4 billion to come up with a product and distribution
| model that open source companies routinely do for under $10 million,
| and much more efficiently (and with huge economic benefits for the
| world). I mean, really. His investors should be running for the
| doors when they hear just how expensive it is for him to eke out
| meager returns in a market that is ripe for open source.
|
| [...]
|
| Mr. Agassi: With that $1.4 billion you are wasting I could build
| hundreds of open source startups/projects that would create a
| massive amount of customer value. Why don't you do that, instead?
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/02/sap_we_waste_lo.html
What more, the customer is paying for all the advertising (e.g. 0.5$ billion
for Vista).
Related:
What is Your Operating System Worth?
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| If you are using Linux what did you pay? Nothing? A dollar or two to
| get it from a cheap ISO dump? But what is it really worth?
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http://sweetcomputing.com/index.php?wiki=What_is_your_operating_system_worth
General Statistics for Debian Sarge Code Counting
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| Total Estimated Cost to Develop 1,752,867,00,000$
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http://libresoft.dat.escet.urjc.es/debian-counting/sarge/index.php?menu=Statistics
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