English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

The second piece of research I found covers a little different of an audience that we would still like to adhere to. Schools overseas are also concerned with this matter. While our audience is intended to adhere to smaller schools, this is just fine. There are plenty of small schools overseas. So, I found an article outlining this subject over in the United Kingdom. Turns out several schools over there are also following this economic plan.

The interesting thing about this article was how it outlined the bidding process behind getting the consulting agreements. This really showed me another light I hadn’t even thought about. Although these implementations are much cheaper this is still a competitive market. Companies are still going to try and bid each other out. I think this piece will really help us in analyzing another factor of these costs I didn’t really think about. The initial bidding can be interesting in how these companies sway their buyers into their services. This could really help in seeing what the true costs of these implementations might be, not just the bloated costs. The cost of consulting can be huge and may also be a downside to outline in our white paper also.

I found this piece of research to be very helpful once again in the cost analysis. I didn’t even think about consulting services before. I had just assumed most places would just be implementing it themselves considering it is open source and this is the best way to learn about your own system your running. However this new insight will benefit our paper by outlining this possible con.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/460/1035460/open-source-trumps-...