[XML-SIG] "Selling" Open Source.

[Alan Kennedy]

W. Eliot Kimber wrote:

> However I
> spoke with our CEO just yesterday about providing an open
> source version of what we've got, which is all entirely
> Python based. She said she would give it serious
> consideration.

> I'm trying to sell my
> employer, DataChannel, on the benefit of other integrators
> having easy access to our software so they can develop
> additional add ons.

For interest, The Economist has a series of articles this month about
Software and Web Services, including an article on Open Source.

It might be a useful for persuading CEO's, CIO's and CFO's to know that such
an economics/finance/free market oriented publication as the Economist is
writing positively about Open Source, in language that C?O's understand. You
can read the article at

http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=568269

Contents for the "Survey of Software" can be read at

http://www.economist.com/printedition/index.cfm

Regards,

Alan.