For most workflows, free and open alternatives exist today. Nevertheless, the question keeps coming up as to whether specialized procedures can actually be migrated. In the talk »Open Innovation and Open Source in Schleswig-Holstein«, Sven Thomsen demonstrated what really matters in this context. Above all, the decisive factor is political will. If it exists, the remaining obstacles can be overcome with a very high degree of certainty. ...
Thomas Di Giacomo writes in »Open Source projects vs products: A strategic approach« for opensource.net Every new version of Open Source upstream projects may remove features we and our customers depend on, introduce new bugs and potential performance issues, and cause other regressions that can disrupt business operations. Therefore, businesses that rely on Open Source must actively manage these changes to avoid potential disruptions. ...
The article “Why single vendor is the new proprietary” by Thierry Carrez is packed with smart ideas and information. The following quote is meant only as a representative sample of the overall content. In the next 20 years, Open Source got overwhelmingly popular and unleashed a software revolution. A recent study by researchers at Harvard Business School estimated the demand-side value of Open Source software to be $8.8 trillion! In other words, without Open Source, companies would have to pay 3.5 times as much for software than they currently do. It’s estimated that 96% of software contains an Open Source component. Developing new software today without using any Open Source would be a pretty challenging endeavor. ...