Anticlue

Risk Adversion and Open Source

Knowing what one is getting into is good at times, better yet is determining if the risk is worth it. Everyone has different acceptable levels of risk. So what's up with risk and opensource? Open Source solutions are gaining respect in the business community, but they need to be evaluated in a systemmatic manner. Because frankly there are different levels of a opensource solution, and there maybe early adopters who will take the brunt of the implementation costs and discover the new issues. And then there are the pragmatists, like me, who are trying to evaluate if the solution is really ready for primetime and not a career limiting move, CLM.

In order to avoid a CLM, it might be worth evaluating the open source tool compared to a standard. Navica has the Open Source Maturity Model, and it is worth checking out for evaluating and determining if the solution is a worthy risk.