<Tab/> Open sourced software should be adopted by business and software community because of the advantages it provides over closed source. While each model has its own benefits, for current businesses a mixed model is the best choice. The cost of each model is very different; open source is free but usually has to be customized for each company thus adding to the TCO, while closed source has very concrete uses, …showed first 75 words of 591 total…

…showed last 75 words of 591 total…large departments dedicated to support the development of an open sourced application or operating system. Public companies on the other hand I would recommend the mixed environment. This is because they have the resources to throw around to allow the employees to use their OS of choice. So I would recommend instead of deciding on an overall policy, let the departments decide what is best. From there on implement the systems and get inter-department networking.