mjasay writes "IDC has released a report, "2007 Industry Adoption of Open Source Software, Part 2: Project Adoption," wherein analyst Matt Lawton stumbles across an intriguing observation in open-source software adoption. The observation? That IT departments do most of the services around open source, rather than third-party consulting companies. While IDC believes this is a bad thing, the data in the report suggests otherwise. 70% of the enterprises surveyed do their own implementations, while roughly 90% support their own open-source deployments. This might be a cause for alarm if the projects weren't so successful: 70% of the projects were deemed to be of "Critical" or "High Importance" compared to other IT projects and 90% plan to maintain or increase their investment in open source projects. Could it be that open source is liberating enterprises from an unhealthy dependence on vendors, and that early results suggest that this will be a Very Good Thing for the success of IT projects, many of which have failed historically." Link to Original Source
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