85% Of The Enterprises Use Open Source? Math Is Right But Needs To Show Work.

The Gartner numbers seem positive, and encouraging — especially in light of the acknowledgement that the remaining 15% are planning to move toward more open source software in the near future. Then Gartner drops the bad news — cases that Moody says don’t end badly (they are usually remedied with a polite phone call) or even happen terribly frequently (12 or so cases a year) — that 69% of companies have no formal method of evaluating and cataloging their open source applications, leaving them at risk of intellectual property liabilities.