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by Joshua Greenbaum, Contributing Editor   | Abstract: | Open source has come a long way since its modest beginnings, but don't expect it to replace commercial enterprise applications.
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Oracle's recent acquisition of a Finnish open source database company has given new life to the ongoing question of what role open source will have in the enterprise software market. The answer: Don't bet the farm on open source, yet. To be fair, there are lots of ways in which open source technology may have already insinuated itself into your company: Apache servers and Linux operating systems are examples. There may even be a MySQL project -- similar to the open source code recently acquired by Oracle -- hidden somewhere in IT. In other words: your geeks may already be using open source technology. Just don't expect your executives and business managers to be using it anytime soon. [Click to continue] |