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The New Economics of Open Source
Harnessing the power of open-source software in your organization can reset the economics of information technology. As I have come to discover, mature open-source products often provide 80% of the features at 10% of the cost of traditional closed, proprietary solutions.
The majority of open-source software distributions are free, easy to install,
highly customizable, and easily integrated with the hardware and software most companies have now. Plus, they include many of the bells and whistles found on proprietary software. Because open source benefits from a vast community of dynamic, creative developers, the software is often cleaner and more lightweight than its proprietary cousins. And open-source service and support can cost enterprises far less than contracts with proprietary vendors.
True, some companies resist open source out of concerns for the level of production support that will be available. But that issue is diminishing as respected enterprise vendors such as Sun and Ubuntu offer support on par with proprietary software support for those who seek it. That, in addition to the millions of deployments in use for some of the more mature open-source offerings, makes open source more than ready to play at the enterprise level.
While many companies have open source in use today, few are fully capturing its economic advantages on a broad basis — and those who do so most aggressively will enhance their speed to market and lower their IT costs.
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