Many times when people speak about Open Source software, they only think of pieces of work like Linux and Apache HTTP Server but there are many other Open Source solutions which are not as large or mature. Some solutions are released by the same mature communities that released Linux and Apache HTTP Server but others do not yet project the same sense of comfort and longevity that The Apache Software Foundation (
http://www.apache.org) does today. Regardless however of who releases the Open Source solution, the question remains the same, and that is, whether or not to use Open Source Solutions in production systems. The questions and research must address the issues of Security, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Licensing and Break/Fix before any recommendation can be made to use Open Source software. The hope is that these questions are asked and research is done before the answers or results are found to be unacceptable.
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