Question 3. You are the Chief Information Officer of a medium-sized bicycle manu

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Question 3. You are the Chief Information Officer of a medium-sized bicycle manufacturing company of 500 employees, 50 suppliers, and 10,000 customers. Your company has 10 servers, 300 personal computers, and 100 laptops. You now use mostly commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) for communications, word processing, accounting, order processing, customer databases, personnel management, and so forth. Your Chief Executive Officer has asked you to analyze the option of moving to open-source operating-system and applications software. a. List your decision criteria for such a move. b. Discuss qualitatively the pros and cons of COTS and open source according to each criterion. c. On balance, what is your recommendation?

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i would recommend COTS because of lower costs

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