{"id":2777,"date":"2012-02-16T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2012-02-16T07:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T15:00:26","slug":"open-source-commercial-software-loses-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/open-source-commercial-software-loses-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source: Commercial Software Loses Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open Source is now a competitive mainstream alternative for many business applications and the rise of Open Source<\/a> is becoming a threat to proprietary software.<\/p>\n

A decade ago, Open Source was not well understood and considered by many organizations to be too risky to even be considered as an option. \u00a0Today, success by well-recognized Open Source product brands like RedHat, MySQL and Alfresco have totally changed people’s perspectives about Open Source. \u00a0Linux has become a sort of poster-child success story for Open Source. \u00a0Key selling points of Open Source have been less vendor lock-in and more flexibility in software customization.<\/p>\n

Laurie Wurster<\/a>, research director at Gartner, described the results of a survey on Open Source taken by Gartner in the Harvard Business Journal<\/a>. \u00a0She found that across the total sum of all organizations, Open Source platforms account for 29 percent of software portfolios. \u00a0Organizations responded that they are using Open Source in the following way:<\/p>\n