Open source: Still waiting on IT

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Open source: Still waiting on IT

If I needed a clear sign that commercial open source is alive and well, reading Roberto Galoppini's remarks on the five Open Innovation Awards winners provided that and more. I used to be able to count every open-source company on two hands. Galoppini mentioned four of which I've never heard. I'll feel a lot better, however, when we hear less about vendors writing open-source software and more about enterprise IT releasing open-source code.

There's no question that enterprise IT is adopting open source in droves. Gartner speculates that 85 percent of enterprises already use open source. (The other 15 percent are, too, I suspect, but the CIOs at those companies simply don't know about the Mule, JBoss, Postgres, etc. that is running rampant through their halls.)
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Take The New York Times, for example, which is releasing its Document Viewer under an open-source license within the next few weeks.

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