- Open Source and Free Software
are not new phenomena, but have recently become much more important
as a result of the Internet
- Open Source software providers
are motivated by a variety of incentives, including financial
/ commercial
- Open Source development
is increasingly being undertaken by vendor and end-user commercial
organisations
- Gartner Group (18th January 2000) recommends that "IT
organizations which currently exclude all OSS from their acquisition
plans should re-examine this policy".