Open Source Adoption: More Rigor, Less Emotion | Linux Today

Open Source Adoption: More Rigor, Less Emotion

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 11, 2007

“Determining a move toward open source and open standards needs
to become a lot less emotional. And to get there companies need to
cook up a policy for evaluating a move to open standards and open
source.

“Those are two of the big takeaways from Andrea Di Maio, an
analyst at Gartner. Di Maio tried to thread the needle between the
first wave open standards and source adoption, which is
characterized by emotion, and a second wave, which will be led by
companies looking to save money…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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