Gartner doles out sobering predictions for open source use in the enterprise for next 5 years
The economic slowdown should benefit open source software but whether open source software will benefit its owners is up in the air.
That’s according to Gartner Group predictions for 2009, which claims that over the next few years most enterprises using open source won’t manage those assets correctly and most won’t achieve any cost savings over proprietary software.
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