Open source
software is everywhere within user organizations. It is
considered acceptable and desirable by user executives for all
software categories, in all aspects of the enterprise.
Open source software is sought out, considered and evaluated
for more than half of all business software acquisitions
worldwide.
User organizations see significant business and competitive
value from their use of open source software. Users are drawn
to open source due to it's:
-Low
cost of acquisition;
-Independence from vendor release and licensing requirements;
and
-Ability to manipulate source code -- even by the smallest
enterprises.
As a result, open source software has a large and growing, and
increasingly unseen, presence within user organizations. The
presence of open source is much larger than previously
reported. Low cost and ability to manipulate source code means
that open source software is (and will be) integrated into
user environments, commercial software solutions, and software
delivered as a service (SaaS).
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