Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

New OSS Doomed In Enterprise?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-kill-the-penguin dept.

Rob wrote to mention a Computer Business Review Online article which posits that immature open source software is doomed in an enterprise environment nowadays. From the article: "Open-source startups and relative newcomers must target a new breed of CIOs, which Graf dubs chief process innovation officers. Rather than old-school CIOs who focus on a company's data management, these guys design processes with the company's network. "If you want to become strategic to the company, you need to deal with business processors. 'The key question for open source is, Which open source technologies are mature enough to survive the consolidation that's coming?' Graf said. 'Linux? Definitely. Eclipse? Definitely. Mozilla? Most likely.'"

1 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. No no no no... by Trails · · Score: 1, Troll

    Open source will always be under the shadows of immaturity and fear of reverse engineering. However, open source does have something going for it: price.

    The relatively minimal costs of open source versus not will continue to be an upward pressure on their implementation.

    The conclusions in the article ignore this, and are, imo, flawed.