Acquiring IT Solutions through Open Source Software

TL;DR

This paper discusses the growing adoption of open source software in business, highlighting its high quality, widespread use by major companies, and its potential as an alternative to proprietary solutions.

Contribution

It provides an analysis of open source software's quality, adoption trends, and compares open source office suites with proprietary options, emphasizing their business relevance.

Findings

Open source software is of high quality and widely used by major companies.

Adoption of open source software is increasing rapidly.

Open source solutions can serve as viable alternatives to proprietary software.

Abstract

Open source software is free software that provides user freedom to use, replicate, modify, and distribute for any purpose. The quality of well-known open source software is very high and they are used by big companies such as IBM, Google and Amazon.com. Recently the number of open source software project growing very fast, which indicates that adoption of open source software is growing although still limited. Businesses should consider open source software as alternative solutions to their business problems or opportunities. An example of a very good open source software for office suite is discussed and compared with the well-known proprietary counterpart.