01485nas a2200121   4500008004100000022001400041245004700055210004400102260004200146520112200188100001701310856003601327       2008                        eng d  a1913-610200aEditorial: Enterprise Readiness (May 2008)0 aEditorial Enterprise Readiness May 2008  aOttawabTalent First Networkc05/20083 aIn January 2008, Gartner released their "Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users, 2008 and Beyond". Their analysis around open source included the key finding that it "has become impractical for mainstream IT organizations to avoid or ignore the influence of open source across a wide variety of industry market segments. Doing so will put organizations at a serious disadvantage against competitors that are leveraging mature, stable and well-supported open-source technologies for significant return-oninvestment and total-cost-of-ownership opportunities." Does this mean that the enterprise is finally ready for open source?

As Bernard Golden points out in the first article, it is impossible to answer that question when it is framed that way--there are just too many open source projects, each possessing varying degrees of maturity and usability. Bernard further posits a key point that enterprises themselves vary from early adopters to pragmatists. Fortunately, resources are available for gauging the applicability of a specific open source product to meet the needs of a particular organization.
1 aLavigne, Dru  uhttp://timreview.ca/article/144