Succeeding with Open Source

Conclusion

Writing a book is a temporal activity. Even in the best of circumstances, a year passes between preparing a book proposal and physical books being available at local bookstores. I began this project based on my firm's experience working with clients, convinced that companies would increasingly move to open source solutions. When people asked me why I was writing a book about how IT organizations could methodically select, assess, and implement open source software, I would reply, jokingly, “Open source is ready for the airplane ride experience.” When they looked at me quizzically, I would elaborate: “The CEO of the company walks into the CIO's office and says 'I was on an airplane last week and read an article about open source—what ...