85% of Enterprises Use Open Source: Math Is Right, But Needs to Show Work

Posted by sakgarg on Nov 20, 2008 4:10 AM EDT
OStatic; By Kristin Shoemaker
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The Gartner numbers seem positive, and encouraging -- especially in light of the acknowledgement that the remaining 15% are planning to move toward more open source software in the near future. Then Gartner drops the bad news -- cases that Moody says don't end badly (they are usually remedied with a polite phone call) or even happen terribly frequently (12 or so cases a year) -- that 69% of companies have no formal method of evaluating and cataloging their open source applications, leaving them at risk of intellectual property liabilities.

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