Open to growth

摘要

Many factors are affecting adoption of open-source solutions: James Hayes looks at recent market indicators. A CONTRACTING economy may be bad news for many business sectors, but it could provide a fillip for the fortunes of the open-source software (OSS) ideal, in two key areas. First, the open-source 'community' has reached a maturity point where its proponents are able to make a credible case for its ability to support both enterprise-class operating environments and personal productivity tools. Second, with IT initiatives increasingly having to demonstrate cost efficiencies in order to see proposals approved, the savings that OSS delivers mean it is making inroads into organisations of all sizes.