Thomas Di Giacomo schreibt in »Open Source projects vs products: A strategic approach« für opensource.net Every new version of Open Source, upstream projects, may remove features we and our customers depend upon, introduce new bugs and potential performance issues and other regression that can disrupt business operations. Therefore, businesses relying on Open Source must actively manage these changes to avoid potential disruptions. ...
Der Artikel »Why single vendor is the new proprietary« von Thierry Carrez strotzt nur so vor klugen Gedanken und Informationen. Im Folgenden dient das angeführte Zitat lediglich als Repräsentant des gesamten Inhalts. 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. ...