Quality, not expensive, always wins

Having been involved with process improvement and the Baldrige efforts for a number of years I see this all of the time in business and in life. As the quote states "The University of Northern Colorado's Monfort College of Business says applications have been on the rise since it became the first business school to win the prestigious Baldrige Award late last year." For those that have their game hat on and understand the significance of this, this is a no brainer, but for those that have not learned what this is about, they'll either continue to suffer or ask for "favoritism" or "a break" in the issues because of their failure to change. You see this all the time for businesses when they ask for the governements help in stemming the tide of competing products. Does this mean that all product are fair that come for overseas? No, but to give the illusion that overseas is always the problem is bad for business.

The one thing that most people are not aware is the Linux kernel has better quality than proprietary ones. This article Linux Kernel Software Quality and Security Better than Most Proprietary Software tells the whole story about why Linux is better. When quality is better, over time your costs go down, buy poor quality and your costs will go up. While my grandfather always said "Pay enough to get the job done," sometimes it can be short sighted. With that said, for small businesses always buy good value, never on price, for either cheap or expensive will cost you money.