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Open Source: Enterprise Usage is Up, but Governance is Lax
More and more companies either by conscious policy decision or via other channels are using Open Source software. That fact in itself can be good, but the problem is that as many as 60 percent of companies using Open Source may have no governance plan
in place to track the usage or the specific licensing details of the Open Source software that they are using. And, that can be a problem.
That’s the prognosis of an informal survey of software users made by the Open Source software company OpenLogic. The reason why the software usage tracking isn’t happening is “either because the companies don’t have any formal inventory processes or because they rely on self-reporting.”
Of the companies that are using Open Source, the survey also found that 18 percent of the companies preferred the use of Open Source and 41 percent feel that Open Source is on an equal footing with traditional software licensing. 29 percent said they would consider Open Source when no other solution was available, and 12 percent said they would use it when the Open Source solution was superior to all others. No executives said that Open Source was not at allowed in their companies under any circumstances.
