Who Uses Open Source?
The short answer is “everyone.” If you've searched with Google, purchased books from Amazon, or placed a call with MCI, you've used open source. Each of these organizations uses open source as part of its core computing infrastructure.
Open source is used by a number of major corporations.
The somewhat longer answer is that many organizations currently use, are actively experimenting with, or are thinking about using open source. To date, users of open source have mostly been early adopters; pragmatic IT organizations are now beginning to consider open source, mostly for the reasons outlined earlier. A detailed discussion of how these early adopters and pragmatic organizations use IT is contained in Chapter 4, “The Open ...
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