[AnthonyMouse]

The integration costs were part of the 40 hours. The trouble is you haven't avoided them by paying the money.

Open tools also tend to have a longer life, because a community survives even as members come and go, but one boss decides that a product isn't sufficiently profitable or the company gets bought out by a competitor and now it's discontinued and you have to start over.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

And the open tools often end up with more transferable skills down the road: e.g. learning to deploy to AWS only helps with AWS; learning to deploy to k8s lets you be productive in a lot more situations.