Commercial software advantages over open source:

1. vendor support
2. "easier to adopt in organisation" (aka ICT politics)
3. automated updates
4. lower support overheads
5. better functionality

Open source advantages over commercial software:

1. price
2. source code access
3. community code review
4. "don't know" (!)
5. bug fix turnaround

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