For Business Critical Applications, It's Got To Be Open Source

A study conducted by Forrester Consulting revealed that customers use open source for mission-critical applications, but showed concern about the availability of services to unlock the full value of open source solutions.

More than half of the respondents—58 percent in North America and 51 percent in the UK and Continental Europe—stated that they use open source software for mission-critical applications.

More than 79 percent report using open source in the application infrastructure—in databases, Web servers and application servers. In fact, 77 percent of the study respondents called open source important or very important for improving IT efficiency and delivering more with less.

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