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August 10, 2010
IT Decision Makers Can Learn From SAP's Open Source Adoption Process
By Savio Rodrigues
SAP, arguably one of the remaining enterprise software vendors to accept and use open source within its products, made news by announcing a broader open source strategy. More importantly, SAP explained how they planned for the greater acceptance of open source components within their projects. Enterprise IT decision makers can learn from SAP's progress along the open source adoption cycle.

Risk, a four letter word in IT

As IDG's Joab Jackson reports, SAP faced two key related hurdles while attempting to grow its usage of open source components within their products - executive acceptance and developer education. Not surprisingly, these very same issues were also highlighted in a newly released Accenture survey of open source adoption amongst 300 US and UK companies with over $500 million in yearly revenue. Accenture explains:

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