Given the recent economic downturn, I’ve thought of the idea of providing open source consulting services to smaller businesses – the ones who balk at spending thousands of dollars on license fees but need the software to conduct business.
Things like using Linux/OSS on the server end instead of things like Exchange (Postfix) or SQL Server (Postgres), and doing software development using open source technology (e.g. Java, Python, Ruby). Or I could stick with the Microsoft stack, but most businesses I’ve seen don’t want to pay that kind of money no matter how good it might be.
With the economy how it is, and with more and more companies looking to save money without sacrificing anything, do you think this kind of business would be viable?
