Open Source in today's IT Infrastructures

Do you know the general trends in OSS ?

Europe move faster than US
OSS is no longer confined to public sector who was the forerunner: customers in other sectors of economy
Moving away from “Pro's” or “Against” Open Source: a growing number of IT policies combines Open Source and close-source software
Industrialisation & commercialisation of Open Source solutions: the dot Org becomes dot Com
Sensibility to the Open Source strategy and his operational resources by the service providers

Open Source in today's IT Infrastructures

Open Source is ready for the Enterprise, but do we need to take special care when implementing it ? Can we do all we want with it ?

If you have a look at the Open Source Solutions that I've listed, you will see that, yes, everything in the IT Infrastructure can be implemented using Open Source software. But attention, this is not always easy at it may seem.
There things to pay attention for.

Pay attention to ...

Open Source is a suitable solution for the enterprise. You can answer to almost any demand with an Open Source implementation. But before implementing a solution, you need to choose one. This very first step, is not as easy as you may think. Attention thus !

Read more about the selection of an Open Source project for your enterprise.

Perfect alternative to legacy application but ...

So an Open Source project will be better than its commercial proprietary counterpart ?
From a technical point of view, what's make an application better than another one is the features. But what does this means in Open Source ? And from a non-technical point of view (ROI, TCO, ...), will be the Open Source solution always the better ?

Let's have a look if Open Source solutions are better than proprietary ones

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