LXer: Creating an Open Source Strategy - Part 2
 

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In Part 1 of this series, I explained my reasoning behind creating an open source strategy. In Part 2, I will discuss our progress. Our first step was to create an inventory of the open source products that we use at my IT shop. We have a few areas within the organization that were early adopters of OSS and have a variety of products in use. When polling the staff for OSS products, I expected to find between 20-30 actively being used. I was shocked to find that we have around 100 different OSS products in our inventory (not including the ones packaged within proprietary closed software products). What an eye opener!

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