:InformationWeek: How To Tell The Open Source Winners From The Losers
InformationWeek: How To Tell The Open Source Winners From The Losers Feb 5, 2007, 14 :30 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (5409 reads)
"There are 139,834 open source projects under way on SourceForge, the popular open source hosting site. Five years from now, only a handful of those projects will be remembered for making lasting contributions--most will remain in niches, unnoticed by the rest of the world. For every Linux, Apache, or MySQL, dozens of other open source efforts fizzle out.
"That's a dilemma for the many companies that are expanding their use of open source. Corporate developers and other IT professionals must get better at divining the winners and ignoring the losers. The wrong picks can lead companies down a rat hole of support problems and obsolete software..."
