LinuxPlanet: Managing Open Source Usage in Off-Shore, Outsourced Development: Best Practices

“Open source software is currently transforming the way
corporations build and deploy their strategic IT assets. The
economics behind this trend are extremely compelling; by leveraging
open source programming libraries for low-level tasks such as XML
processing, handling network protocols and other applications,
companies are able to focus their programming resources on
higher-level tasks. This can provide dramatic increases in software
development productivity.

“In addition, using open source libraries as part of the
development process can also have a significant impact on overall
software quality. Since the most common open source programming
libraries are in extremely wide use, they benefit from having ‘many
eyes on the code’; that is, they get debugged faster since so many
people are using and testing them. In the end, this “community
debugging” process may be one of the greatest advantages of using
open source software since it can result in very high levels of
software quality…”

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