“The next few years will see many companies opting to mix and
match proprietary and open source software where they see fit,
according to analyst group Gartner.“Speaking on Thursday at the Midsize Enterprise Summit in Paris,
Phil Dawson, Gartner research vice-president, said that the analyst
group was increasingly receiving feedback from its clients showing
that there is a real growth in companies that want to run open
source software stacks on top of Windows, or proprietary software
on top of Linux…”