Open source is everywhere. Sure its less expensive, but that's not the whole story, or even the most interesting part. Ope source use is growing because open source is less risky and more agile than tradtional vendor applications. It is less risky because it undergoes more inspection and testing than most enterprise scale applications and it makes your organization more agile.

So what is enterprise class open source?

Here are some exemplars:

Linux

*BSD

mySQL

JBOSS

Perl

PGP

Every one of these packages partakes of a few common characterisitcs. They have are widely deployed, they have large and active development communities, the have large and active user communities and they target commodity functions.

Being an agile organization means (among other things) no excues. Open source is what lets that happen. By having the source, you can resolve problems, verify operation and ensure security in ways that are completely impossible without access to the source.

Info-Scape can help you evaluate and select commercial and open source applications that best suit your needs, then help you make the work together.