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Netstat -vat by Sean Michael Kerner (bio)

A command line view of IT



85 percent using open source - but still frustrated?

By Sean Michael Kerner on November 17, 2008 10:23 AM
tux.jpgFrom the "1+1=11" files:

Gartner has a report out today claiming 85 percent of companies are now using open source. It's a funny number in my opinion since the reality is more like 100 percent.

If you visit a site that is hosted on an Apache Webserver does that count? If you use Firefox does that count? If you use a program that was built with GCC (and many do) does that count?

Gartner expects that it will hit 100 percent in the next 12 month though. The more interesting part is that their survey found that 69 percent of companies surveyed,"... still have no formal policy for evaluating and cataloguing OSS usage in their enterprise." That's a big deal of course and one that vendors like HP, Black Duck, OpenLogic and Palamida all have developed strong offerings around.
"Understanding when and how an OSS alternative may be used is a frustrating process, especially when there are so many license types and forms from which to choose," said said Laurie Wurster, research director at Gartner in a statement. "As time goes by, many of these concerns will be addressed, but this continues to be a slow process. Increases in OSS popularity and in the rate of OSS adoption will drive the required changes."
The obvious question - is if Open Source Software (OSS) is so frustrating in Gartner's view - than how do they explain that 85 percent now and 100 percent within a year are using open source? 

Apparently it's not so frustrating that people won't use it.

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5 Comments

pcolon said:

"Analysts sell out - that's their business model... But they are very concerned that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very prickly to work with." (Pg.54)

-Microsoft, internal document http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf

November 17, 2008 9:40 PM
sobe said:

Sell your Microsoft stock -- the truth is coming out.

November 18, 2008 9:26 AM
Phord said:

"If you use a program that was built with GCC (and many do) does that count?"

No, that does not count as "using FOSS".

November 18, 2008 9:50 AM
Maxwell said:

I'm trying to get peeps here in East Africa to take OpenHRM, vTiger, webERP, TinyERP, SQL-Ledger, PostgreSQL, Wordpress, Textpattern, Care2X (hospital information system), and a plethora of other great FREE apps for a spin.

With the new releases of NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, PCBSD along with a ton of Linux variants, businesses in these parts are starting to imagine the huge cost savings that can be realized by going FOSS. We just need more IT experts to steer them in the right direction.

November 20, 2008 3:04 AM
Imole Ajiboye said:

What is the point of giving someone a house without a roof, when the poor guy now ask for the roof he was asked to pay for it, a price nearly as expensive as buying a whole house.

Now you see the catch in your so called FOSS, i have worked and deloyed many platforms but open and close, based on the exprience i can only say the answer to saving IT related cost is not always open FOSS.

To me FOSS is just the samething with ADR and Law practice at the end of the day the victim (users) still pay now with FOSS they are paying a diffent person under a false pretence of Free Software and get your money back ti unreasable service charge.

Close software pays the firm that creates the system while open source pays the consultants.

So evaluate your situations well and do your cost benefit analysis and now open source is not free, it free now pay later.

November 21, 2008 9:01 AM

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