Forbes Magazine
"Not until recently has open source gained adoption in other enterprise software strongholds. IT managers have long worried that open-source products were immature, or that there was no centralized company to take responsibility if there were problems with the software. Now, however, open source success stories far outweigh reported disasters."

IDC Research
According to Albert Pang, the director of enterprise applications research at IDC, the open-source service model (as opposed to the license-fee model) will ultimately prevail because it will enable all kinds of on-demand and subscription plans.
   
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Gartner Research
“During the next five years open-source software products will directly compete with commercial products to displace license revenue from traditional markets, while expanding the overall market through inclusion of small and mid size business customers and merging service organizations.”

With strained IT budgets organizations are looking for different ways to deliver exceptional return on investments. Open source often can reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and increase Return On IT Investments. Organizations of all sizes are deploying open source. ComSec enables organizations to weight the value in open source- strategically leveraging open source solutions when prudent. Many organizations require support of applications- ComSec only endorse products for which commercial support is available.

 

  
Below is a partial list of the types of open source products we leverage:  

Antivirus
Firewalls
Intrusion Detection Systems
Intrusion Prevention Systems
Network Monitoring
Server Monitoring
Vulnerability Management
Project Management
Training Systems
Security Information Management
Content Filtering
Log Analysis

Source Labs
Bruce Perens, an open-source consultant and VP at Sourcelabs claims that it’s almost impossible to find a company that is not using Linux or open source in some way. Perens’ clients include Merrill Lynch , Motorola and the NYC Department of Correction. According to Perens, “Some firms tell us that they aren’t [using open source], but ask their engineers rather than their managers, and it turns out they are.”
 		  
   
 

Forrester Research
Forrester Research estimates that at least 50% of companies it recently surveyed are using open source in some fashion.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

 

 

 

 

  


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