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Chapter 5: Software Choice Worksheet

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Attached to this page is a worksheet you can use to help you look at the TCO, strategic value, and mission-based philosophy of proprietary vs. FOSS vs. web-hosted system. (A note- 'software as a service' includes services such as Salesforce, Google Apps or Kintera.) We hope that this can be a practical, useful tool for making software choices.