"With Maria Winslow, open source practice leader at Virtuas. Winslow is the author of 'The Practical Manager's Guide to Open Source' and writes an open source blog for LinuxWorld magazine.
"Question: How do you get newcomers to open source started with the right kind of approach, people who need an explanation of what it all means and how they can benefit from it?
"Winslow: I think it would be difficult to find an IT organization that doesn't have some open source in use already, so one way to get started is to point out where open source is in use in the organization and to point out how well it's probably been working..."
