As is, Kuali costs less than a commercial product. It takes a certain amount of expertise to install any software, and you can hire, rent or outsource that expertise, or even use an ASP [application service provider] model and buy the cycles "turnkey" from someone else. One advantage of open source is that it provides a marketplace for buying those services. You have more choices, not just the companies which have been certified in a product by that product's vendor. A number of commercial firms are now interested in providing Kuali services such as hosting, managing Unix boxes, or even providing a Tier One facility. Or, you may want to do all that yourself, but rent the specialists you need on an as-needed basis. Now that there's an open source option and nobody has the intellectual property advantage, there is a competitive market for these services, and the rates will be saner.