5 minutes with Brad Storm

My issues with adopting to Open Source for your business

Categories: Professional, IT Strategy & Architecture

Posted on Monday, April 20, 2009 by Brad Storm

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Apparently Open Source Software (OSS) is still a hot topic. Both Gartner and Forrester expects OSS to be a major player in future enterprise systems. In Norway, smaller counties talks about adopting to OSS to cut licensing cost, the Norwegian government has a strategic directive of favorizing OSS, while Simon Phipps from SUN explains that the greatest advantage of OSS is freedom over lower licencing cost.

I already have a bunch of issues with this - especially related to the government involvement in OSS, counties and small companies benefiting from OSS, and whether the intent of OSS has been a bit misintrepreted when it reached the majority of users?

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