Open Source becoming popular in corporate

Open Source becoming popular in corporate

Gartner researchers have found that Eighty-five percent of companies are already using open-source software in some form or the other.

The report added that most of the remaining entities are also planning to start using open source applications in the coming months.

The surprising part of the research was that just around 31 percent of companies had policies for evaluating and procuring open-source software.

This research was conducted on 274 end-user organizations across the Asia/Pacific, Europe, and North America market earlier this year.

Gartner research director Laurie Wurster stated: “Just because something is free doesn’t mean that it has no cost. Companies must have a policy for procuring OSS, deciding which applications will be supported by OSS, and identifying the intellectual property risk or supportability risk associated with using OSS. Once a policy is in place, then there must be a governance process to enforce it.”

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