Re: Not technical: strategy against competition ?

[Tim Nelson]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, greg wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Did somebody here used, or tried "cfengine competitors" like Sun N1 [1] or 
> Veritas OpForce [2] ?
> What is the best way to make my boss decide to use cfengine instead of these 
> softwares (except that
> cfengine is a free software) ?

	In addition to the great points others have made, I'd come at it 
from the point of view it's open source, so if you really need some 
feature, you can make it yourself (or pay someone to do that).  If it's 
proprietary, the vendor can tell you "No-one (except you) needs that; go 
jump".

        :)

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