“What does it mean to be an open enterprise? Open source
software and open standards are easy enough to define. Figuring out
how they fit into an enterprise IT strategy, however, can be a
little trickier.“For example, sometime late in the last century I was drafted to
do some minor coding on a Web project for a large international
bank. The task was simple enough: Store contact information for
customers who signed up for an online promotion. It didn’t take
long to settle on Perl to make it happen…”