We Now Work in an Open Source World; Here's the Data

How pervasive is open source software? Extremely pervasive. Is it getting any easier to work with? Not much easier, sorry.

That's the prognosis of a recent survey of 872 IT managers, which finds eight in 10 companies employ open source software. 

However, using freely available and low-cost or no-cost licensed software only solves part of the problem -- there is still the challenge of securing the software, as well as having the skills and support to maintain and run it effectively.