Start Ups Need to Learn from Big Business Big Brother

One of the things in talking with many a small business is that they don't have the manpower or time to research all of the solutions for their business because they're too busy with their primary jobs: getting and keeping cusotmers. So, in lieu of researching for themselves they can watch they can watch what their big brothers big business are doing and learn from not only their mistakes but also where they are heading. As Frank van Wensveen in his article states

There are good reasons for using open source software (OSS), and I've learned those reasons through 15 years of experience with more traditional, commercial or closed source applications.

But what this experience teaches Start Ups is the sometimes higher quality can cost us just like poor quality can cost us, but poor quality delivers poor results even though costs are the same. That's why when costs are similar, you next look at the value of what you get.