LONDON – The majority of IT professionals prefer open source products of traditional software. Open Source leads to more stable business processes, higher quality and lower costs. This is the result of a study by the Ponemon Institute. Thus, two-thirds of the surveyed IT decision makers showed convinced that open source increases the security of applications and improves the protection of private data. The study commissioned by the software vendor Zimbra also thought more than 75 percent of respondents said that transparency of program code increases the reliability of software applications.
Source: Zimbra
An infographic with selected study results provides http://files.zimbra.com/website/docs/Zimbra-Ponemon-infographic-DE.pdf
The study led the Ponemon Institute in 18 countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa ( EMEA) and the US through. Of the 1,400 surveyed IT and IT security experts, more than two-thirds were convinced that open source software to more stable business processes leads to proprietary solutions (67 percent in EMEA and 74 percent in the US). Significant differences between EMEA and the US, however, brought to light the study for IT security and data protection issues. While companies rather engaged in EMEA data protection and privacy in the center, the surveyed US specialist security issues were more important.
With their current, mostly proprietary collaboration and communication applications, the majority of respondents were dissatisfied. Accordingly, 52 percent of the company
“plan in EMEA and to replace 55 percent in the US, these applications within the next two years by open source applications. Among the most interesting results of the study of the slow transition belongs to Open-source software for collaboration and communication applications, although IT managers showed a generally overwhelming confidence in open source solutions, “said Larry Ponemon, director and founder of the Ponemon Institute. “Since the solutions currently used, mainly proprietary tend to be negatively rated, I expect in the future an increasing interest for new commercial solutions based on open source software,” said Ponemon.
main results at a glance
Commercial open source software outperforms traditional solutions in terms of stability, quality and control.
• 67 percent of respondents in EMEA said that commercial Open-source software leads to a higher stability of the business.
• 60 percent of IT professionals in EMEA are convinced that commercial open-source software leads to higher quality, while going out 57 percent of them that the control and management of applications is easier.
• Lower costs are no longer the most important argument for open source. The IT managers surveyed rated the stability, quality and control gains as a major. Above all employees represent a high risk to security and privacy are.
• With the greatest risks for collaboration and communication applications in business go by the staff from. The IT managers surveyed in EMEA were like.
• 79 percent of employees do not follow the company policies and share confidential documents
• 71 percent of employees do not use allowed collaboration -.. and communications applications
• 69 percent of employees send and receive files, which are not intended for them
offers the dissatisfaction of IT managers with proprietary software . Open-source solutions new opportunities
• 65 percent of respondents in EMEA are either only partially or not satisfied with their current collaboration and communication solutions – which comes mainly from proprietary vendors .
• 52 percent of IT professionals in EMEA want to replace their current collaboration and communication solutions within the next two years.
• The Reputation For 60 percent of respondents in EMEA one seller and his support the most important factors when choosing a collaboration and communication solution.
“The Ponemon study shows that open source in particular for security and privacy reasons, great opportunities,” said Rob Howard, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Zimbra. “This trend is described by the study, we see through our own current business confirmed: Open Source offers many more benefits than just lower costs. Rather, provides open source IT in business and quality and control gains. “
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