Open Source Goes Mainstream

We lawyers have noticed a trend: in the early days,Whether you are a company producing open source
open source software was seen as renegade stuff,products or whether you are a company using them,
unsuitable for mainstream business. Increasingly,it is essential that all of the implications of using open
however, businesses are utilising open sourcesource are thought through strategically, having
technology for a wide range of technology includingregard to the short, medium and long term
fundamentals such as the operating software.aspirations of the organisation.
Red Hat is the most recognised commercial openFor users, the relative cheapness of open source
source brand and is seeing significant growth year onproducts is clearly attractive. However, with the
year as open source products take off.wrong provider, the disadvantages may outweigh the
Open source products have been dogged by aadvantages.
reputation for unreliability and for a dubious audit trailAbout Kaltons
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Red Hat has nevertheless managed to carve aconsultancy and technology expertise gives us the
significant market for its product in the face of thisedge in understanding your needs and focusing on
reputation and is now taken as a mainstreamsolutions.
provider, used by many organisations large and small.