Open Source: Just Ask For It
Having spent some days with Gartner and some 3′500 CIOs and IT decision makers at the Fall 2007 IT Symposium in Cannes it became obvious that open source has become „business as usual“ now in the enterprise. There was one session specifically focusing on Open Source but there were numerous sessions, specifically in the Web 2.0, portal, collaboration and social software domains that were covered extensively. And interestingly, if the analysts didn’t mention open source alternatives, the audience asked for them. Open source products mentioned often were Drupal, WordPress, Roller, SugarCRM, Alfresco as well as JBoss. One interesting comment from Andrea di Maio was that apparently US government organizations are more aggressively pushing for open source than their European counterparts.
Side note: Spending a few days in the warm and sunny South of France sounds like a nice side effect of joining a conference. but sadly enough, none of the conference rooms had windows. When I was telling this story coming back to the office, somebody asked: “So given they didn’t have Windows, they all were on Linux?”
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