Open-source software has gained growing acceptance in the enterprise. Once enterprises put in place the same governance, policy and support processes around open-source software as they do with proprietary software, there is no limit to how much open-source software they can bring into their organization. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Carol J. Rizzo offers five tips on how to bring open-source software into your organization in a way that maps to your corporate risk factors, making open-source software no more or less of a risk than proprietary software.
– Over
the past decade, I’ve served as CTO of three different Fortune 500
companies. In each of those companies, one of my primary
responsibilities was to mitigate risks associated with technology.
During the same period, open-source software has gained growing
acceptance in the enterprise. Prope…