{"id":31161,"date":"2016-12-26T05:41:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T10:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/five-pros-and-five-cons-of-open-source-software-cio-insight.php"},"modified":"2016-12-26T05:41:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T10:41:22","slug":"five-pros-and-five-cons-of-open-source-software-cio-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/open-source-software\/five-pros-and-five-cons-of-open-source-software-cio-insight.php","title":{"rendered":"Five Pros and Five Cons of Open Source Software &#8211; CIO Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    The premise of open source software sounded like a    techno-hippie dream when the Free Software movement kicked off    in the 1980s. Since then, however, the concept has paved the    way for much-loved tech icons such as the GNU\/Linux operating    system, the Apache HTTP Server and the Mozilla Firefox browser.    Today, CIOs and other IT decision-makers are increasingly    recognizing the value of open source software. In the era of    continuous improvement, it's the essence of communal    collaboration as open source allows IT folks to examine a    products source code, improve or alter it, and distribute it    as they desire. Indeed, enthusiasm for open source software is    driving a \"golden era\" in application development, according to    Forrester Research Inc., as the number of open source projects    has increased to 725,000--up from 100,000 in 2006. So, given    all the interest, CIOs should consider the advantages and    disadvantages often linked to products generated from this    now-seemingly ubiquitous school of innovation. With this in    mind, the following list of pros and cons were compiled from    InformIT.com, TamingtheBeast.net and CloudTweaks.com:  <\/p>\n<p>  Dennis McCafferty is a freelance writer for Baseline  Magazine.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>See original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cioinsight.com\/it-strategy\/infrastructure\/slideshows\/five-pros-and-five-cons-of-open-source-software\" title=\"Five Pros and Five Cons of Open Source Software - CIO Insight\">Five Pros and Five Cons of Open Source Software - CIO Insight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The premise of open source software sounded like a techno-hippie dream when the Free Software movement kicked off in the 1980s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}