Open source thrives in downturn
Collaboration initiatives are all about streamlining business processes, and the interfaces between legacy closed systems and open source stacks are an increasingly common place to find business collaboration environments.
According to research firm Gartner, open source software is present in 85% of enterprises and the remainder expect to deploy it in the next year.
While the large closed vendors struggle to steer their supertankers through increasingly unsettled waters, open source looks all the more attractive to budget constrained businesses looking to maximize their cost effectiveness.
Faster time to market with lower total cost of ownership and greater transparency into the engineering process are balanced by governance challenges, and to a lesser extent issues with conflicting terms and conditions and/or licensing confusion, according to Gartner.
