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	April 23, 2004 Evaluating The Health Of Open Source Software Forrester Wave™: Open Source Software, Q2 '04 by Ted Schadler with John R. Rymer, Carey Schwaber

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Executive Summary

Open source software comes with new risks: Is the community healthy? Is the leadership sound? How strong is the commercial support? We have updated the Forrester Wave™: Open Source Software to help IT professionals assess these risks before making large-scale commitments to an open source component. The results? JBoss is ready to take on the enterprise; MySQL continues to cement its place in the database market; and OpenOffice.org is gaining traction as a replacement for Microsoft Office.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Open Source Requires New Due Diligence
• The Forrester Wave™ Measures Enterprise Viability
• JBoss, MySQL, And OpenOffice.org Look Like Safe Bets

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