1 In 3 IT Shops Uses Combo Proprietary, Open Source Software
Open source software continues its steady creep into IT shops. A survey of 1,000 users by Talend, a provider of open source data integration software, shows that users are increasingly using the technology to complement its proprietary products.
About 35% of survey respondents said they use a combination of proprietary and open source software. Explaining the reasons behind their decision, many said they gravitated to open source solutions when proprietary products could no longer solve the problem they were initially deployed to fix, or when the cost of a commercial solution was prohibitive.
1 In 3 IT Shops Uses Combo Proprietary, Open Source Software — open source — InformationWeek
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