Open Source and the Enterprise: A Call to Action

...The companies that have gone down the open source trail are those that have managed to maintain platform integrity from the outset. For established industries to follow suit, they need to do two things: understand the value of platform integrity and why open source is the optimal base, and how to build a strategy to get there and migrate from their non-open legacy systems.

This is the role of the CIO, where they can shine as innovative and proactive members (or prospective members) of the board. This is the area of need in American industry: CEOs with vision and CIO’s with knowledge of how to achieve it with open solutions and methodologies...