Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Open Source Software - Do enterprises need them?



The author addresses a few myths that surround why Open Source software is not being embraced by IT (fully).


According to the article:- 

The first myth is that open source software is vulnerable to security threats due to access to code, which is not evaluated thoroughly. 

The next challenge that needs to be addressed is the perception that open source is not "enterprise-ready." 

Some companies believe that open source code is great for cutting-edge developers, but not IT operations

Finally, enterprises hesitate to adopt open source software as they believe that there is no responsibility for failures and it is hard to maintain open source code.




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