Many Governments, Institutions and organizations are warming up to open source concept. Even though large software vendors still control their niches e.g. Microsoft still controls vast majority of operating systems market through its windows operating system, that number is starting to tilt in favor of other operating system including Linux; an open-source operating system.
One of the main drivers of open source is cost, it is much cheaper to run an open-source operating system than it is to obtain commercial operating systems like windows.
The success of open source has been attributed to satisfaction and commitment of programmers. Many organizations which use open source also contribute back. Open-source is preferred to commercial software because unlike commercial software where vendors lock you in or impose restriction on you depending on the kind of license you have, not to mention lengthy legal restrictions, most open source are cheaper and easier to upgrade
Examples of opensource projects which are mature for enterprise architectures at the moment are; operating systems (such as Linux), Databases (such as Mysql) and application servers. However it is argued that open-source is still not mature for higher level of enterprise, this can be attributed to community knowledge base which sometimes can be disjointed leading to lack of proper documentation. In addition, since open source depend on programmers donating their time, it is not as lucrative as commercial software and therefore does not always attract the best minds.
Even Microsoft which had been slow to embrace open source has been accommodating. In 2009, they were the founding sponsors of CodePlex Foundation. Codeplex foundation in turn have developed an ASP.NET OpenSource Gallery to support Microsoft products. Ruby On Rail have recently developed iron-ruby; a platform for.net. This is seen by many industry experts as a bridge between Ruby world and.net world
Today opensource operating systems are found in high places such as US department of defense, US Royal Navy, French Parliament, Bank of China, even 1 laptop per child has been built on open source operating system; Linux.
In 2006, IBM ran an advert that said, they support linux 100%. Conoco Phillips, is a machine capable of performing 500 billions calculations per second, and which uses open source Linux to power a massive cluster of servers, used to search the earth for untapped oil under earth.
Amazon uses Linux in every inch of their business, New york Stocks Exchange run on red hat enterprise Linux. Miniature laptops called net-books are today shipped with Linux like never before
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