Introduction to Open Source
With the success of Linux as an operating system, the availability of open office and e-commerce platforms such as Opencart, many companies are consider open source as a strategy for populating their applications. But what are risks/ is it less secure? What does it cost? Do you need a lot of programming expertise to run open source?

Task
Define open source and give some examples. What are the principles of open source and what is its history. How would an IT department go about becoming open source oriented?What is the business case for open source? What are the benefits? Why do developers write open source for nothing? What reasons might there be for not using open source? What is the role of open source companies such as Red Hat? What are the main management issues with open source?