"open source is slowly but surely filtering into the enterprise"

[rcjordan]

In a November 2002 CIO survey of 375 information executives, 54 percent said that within five years open source would be their dominant server platform. Today, major enterprises are running mission-critical functions on open source, big vendors have lined up to support it, and reliable applications have emerged.

And CIOs who have implemented it report huge total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) reductions.

It's now clear that within five years, open source will transform how software is developed, sold and supported.

CIO Magazine [cio.com]