Gartner reports on the status of open source, SaaS. From: KMWorld | Date: June 1, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 Information Today, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Two months ago, Gartner (gart ner.com) issued a report on the state of open source software, and the findings indicate the movement is far more established than many of us would have thought.

As Gartner puts it, "... if you do not think you use it, then you use it; and if you think you do use it, then you use lots more of it than you know." (The report was written by Gartner's Yefim Natis, George Weiss, Mark Driver, Nicholas Gall, Daniel Sholler and Brian Prentice, and w...