Earlier it was believed by big organizations that open source is not reliable and lack of support model, and if it’s a corporate they always wanted supported version with huge junk of money. As Libra, balancing on both sides, licensing cost goes up for organization especially when they become too much dependent on the software or solution, and these days some solutions are not offered in fixed price, they are very flexible, and one has to be really keen and carefully in picking and signing a plan. Recent days Open Source software’s are most trusted and wanted by people, especially when implementation and information becomes handy .
Most of the open source is more lightweight, and stable, also scalable. They also delivery high quality based the configuration a given organization customize for. It’s highly customizable, and there are several independent resources also support services available for implementation and maintenance. Many organization sharing their success stories on their implementation, also helps the new comers additional confidence to play through.
Overall, open source, software’s are really becoming widely used and acceptable in recent years comparing to earlier decade.