Has open source hit a tipping point?

Tipping Point

Article from Issue 126/2011
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Open source in the news, at events around the globe, and now delivered in convenient flyer form.

Today I read an article in the Harvard Business Review called Open Source Software Hits a Strategic Tipping Point. Author Laurie Wurster writes, “Based on surveys my colleagues at Gartner and I have conducted over the past several years, mainstream adopters of IT solutions across a widening array of market segments are rapidly gaining confidence in the use of open source software, with many now stressing its valuable features more than its risks.”

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