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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 09 2017, @02:38PM
Software is mostly junk, period. The only difference is that Closed Source junk generally doesn't sale well, and therefore usually disappears from sight. While Open Source junk tends to rot in public view on some repository on GitHub. This distorts the view.
It's just like thinking there's more life on land than in the sea because you more commonly see land based life forms than sea based life forms, while in truth most sea based life forms are just hidden well below the surface of the water.