Flawed Surveys Attack Open Source
May 2, 2013
A lot of recent research has surfaced regarding the successful adoption of open source technologies, as well as its level of security. However, much of this research is being exposed as flawed. Read one example in the Read Write Enterprise article, “Flawed Survey Tries To Diss Open Source, Fails.”
The article begins:
“Two surveys surfaced last week that paint widely divergent pictures of enterprise adoption of open source. But based on the continued rise of open source in the enterprise, only one is likely correct. The first comes from Univa, a data center automation company that also offers an open-source version of its Grid Engine product. Univa found that while 76% of enterprises surveyed are using open source, a full 75% experience problems running it in mission-critical workloads . . . according to Forrester, ‘developers adopt open source products tactically without the explicit approval of their managers.’”
So open source is being widely adopted, but rather haphazardly and rather poorly. Adoption is only half the battle if implementation is not done well. For enterprises that are struggling to actually make use of their open source infrastructure, improvement begins at the moment of adoption. Choose the right solution. A solution like LucidWorks is ready to go out-of-the-box. However, it is also highly customizable and scalable. Furthermore, since it is built on the power of Apache Lucene/Solr, it is supported by one of the largest open source developer communities.
Emily Rae Aldridge, May 2, 2013
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