Clearly, many businesses believe that there are good reasons to use open source software and to participate in open source projects.
However, experts caution that open source may not be a good fit for every situation. That’s probably why the Zenoss report found that only 11 percent of organizations use open source for nearly every purpose, while 79 percent said that they use open source for specific use cases.
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