Open-source software (OSS) is now a fact of life in the enterprise. Whether it crept in quietly over a period of years, as did the Linux operating system, or bulldozed an entire market sector virtually overnight, as the Eclipse tooling framework dominated the Java development tools market, OSS has been so widely accepted in corporate environments that it’s hard to find a company of any size today that isn’t using it somewhere.
IT executives who were once skittish about platforms and applications whose source code is available (within limits) to anyone who might want to copy, modify and/or redistribute it without paying royalties or fees, now embrace this model. They understand its value: the way it taps into the talents of thousands of motivated programmers in a worldwide community; the way it frees them from vendor lock-in.
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