Overview

By 2011, 90% of the Global 2000 will include open-source technologies as business-critical elements of their IT portfolios. It’s therefore likely that organisations are knowingly, or worse, unknowingly using free and open-source software in internal and customer-facing software.

The challenge is to create the right balance between management controls and enabling development teams to leverage the ever-increasing abundance of high quality, secure, free and open-source code.

The following ten tips offer useful advice on how to manage the use of free and open-source software as part of an effort to drive innovation and lower costs.

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