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Forrester: open source as the hidden backbone of the software industry

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Paving the way for the next generation of enterprise IT

By Forrester, sponsored by Actuate
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Published October 2009

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This report finds that Open Source has become the hidden backbone of the software industry, and leads to a paradigm change in enterprise IT.

In October 2008, Bull commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the upcoming paradigm change of open source software enterprise adoption. In conducting in-depth interviews with 132 senior business and IT executives from large companies that are using open source products, Forrester found that these companies are embracing a fundamentally different understanding of software.

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