Gartner: 85 percent of companies using open source

This recent post on CNET was forwarded to me by a colleague yesterday. An interesting part of the post is that “only 31 percent of companies surveyed by the analyst house had formal policies for evaluating and procuring open-source software.”

With the rise of open source software adoption in more traditionally proprietary industries, insurance and compliance are becoming more and more important. These are just two of the topics we talk about regularly at ActiveState with our Business Solutions clients.

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