ZDNet's David Berlind quotes Dabble founder Mary Hodder in an article about the relative savings of implementing open source software. Hodder tells the author that while purchasing is relatively cheap, maintaining these applications involves a considerable investment: "What happens with open source is you actually spend the same amount of money, but you don't have lock-in and you pay for really good people to run it. And so you still end up paying. But you just pay in a different place. And I think it's a much more sustainable model for that kind of server/software development."

Hodder spoke on the "Beyond Folksonomies: Knitting Tag Clouds for Grandma" panel at the 2006 SXSW Interactive Festival.

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