The role of open source in IT industry always differs from one company to another. With the dominance of proprietary software, most of the enterprises are yet to focus towards adoption of open source solutions in their organization. Check this special to uncover the latest trends in open source arena and role of open source in IT industry.
Open source Vs proprietary: the war goes on!
Open Source is a cost-effective alternative for commercial products, says Karthik T S from THBS
Open source provides freedom to customize
Open source communities play a key role in creating early stage tools and infrastructure, for any new technology, says RamPrasad Kan from Wipro
Indian open source community, biggest in the World
Organisations and individuals in India have slowly started realizing that open source platforms open up to new technologies, encourage collaboration and drive innovation
Open source solns have lesser software flaws
Open source has a huge community contributing to the projects, as a result of which the maturity of the software is high, says Rahul Kopikar of Seclore