Overview
Organizations are realizing benefits from the usage of open source technologies.
The open source community is growing rapidly and is poised to create software platforms to meet every major enterprise technology requirement. Many of these projects offer high quality software with a rich set of features at a fraction of the cost of closed source software. Some have even become industry standards and are increasingly being used in commercial software. Today the open source software movement offers IT organizations with the choice of many open source solutions that are viable alternatives to commercial software.
However, there are still some perceived barriers to adoption due to lack of system integration experience and a formal support infrastructure. These barriers are eroding as more system integrators ramp up on these technologies and a host of companies are now offering support for many open source projects. For many open source projects, IT organizations now have a choice in what support provider they use, a dramatic shift from the closed source software.
Open source is no longer purely a do-it-yourself industry. IT organizations can now find the help they need to successfully leverage open source as a part of their enterprise technology strategy.
