IDG Contributor Network: Open source, the cloud and sleeping better at night

The growing swath of enterprise open source solutions (OSS) is playing an important role in how companies and governments modernize their IT infrastructures, especially when migrating to the cloud.  The benefits of enterprise open source are vast, as it provides enterprises with options and capabilities they would not otherwise receive through proprietary software. Moreover, CIOs are never locked into a single vendor’s solution because the capabilities provided by open source are ubi