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Report: CIOs Need to Embrace Open Source Software to Drive Change

posted by n1 on Friday June 09 2017, @03:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the reporting-common-sense dept.

canopic jug writes:

A South Africa-based magazine summarizes a Forrester report that concludes that it is 'Unforgivably negligent' not to adopt open source. While that has been common knowledge for us for a long time, firms like Forrester are starting to acknowledge the necessity.

Subtitling their report "CIOs need to embrace open source software to drive change", the authors emphasise open source options should be considered alongside proprietary offerings in order to avoid missing out on "sound technologies, access to vibrant communities, and the opportunity to tap innovative new ways of working".

They believe open source has to be part of every business's technology strategy as it will underpin every application on which customers will depend. This means organisations that do not experiment with open source today will find themselves at a huge disadvantage in the not-too-distant future.

If only the UK's NHS had read and acted on the report, or others like it, in time.

Forrester is an American market research company that provides advice on existing and potential impact of technology, to its clients and the public.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 09 2017, @05:04AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 09 2017, @05:04AM (#522934)

    Open Source is FREE SLAVE LABOR.

    There is no other motivation for any profit-seeking C-level cocksucker to use it.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday June 09 2017, @05:37AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Friday June 09 2017, @05:37AM (#522942) Journal

    The catch is that this slave labor have their own will as they will discover. Try system'd and get forked etc. And no where to call to "DO THIS!". It's more a negotiation and proving that a change has merit or it will get the Linus Torvalds review summary ditching.

    There might be naivety, but it may go both ways ;)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 09 2017, @06:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 09 2017, @06:35AM (#522955)

    Yet we owe so much to it. DNS, Apache, email..

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 09 2017, @02:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 09 2017, @02:32PM (#523076)

    Open Source is FREE SLAVE LABOR.

    No, it isn't. It may be free labour (but then, it may be not; many people are paid for producing Open Source), but it is certainly not slave labour. The key property of being a slave is that you are not the one to decide what you want to work on. When working on an Open Source project for free, you do it on your own choice, and are free to stop doing so at any time.

  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday June 09 2017, @02:40PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday June 09 2017, @02:40PM (#523084)

    The software running this forum is open-source, you moron. If you're not a complete hypocrite, you'll leave this place.