Whether you are looking for a document management system or a development framework for your next business application, you might be considering some options from opensource solutions (well.. most of the time), however picking up the right choice that fits to your requirements doesn't necessarily make it a safe choice.
Imagine a company is using a system (could be an ERP, CRM, DMS, ESB...) for a couple of years and that system relies on a framework or third party modules, that one day the provider announced that in the near future his framework will stop receiving maintenance updates, or that the next version will be released under different opensource license, that has more restrictions [Opensource licenses in a competitive environment]. What would be the stakeholder decision ?
Imagine a company is using a system (could be an ERP, CRM, DMS, ESB...) for a couple of years and that system relies on a framework or third party modules, that one day the provider announced that in the near future his framework will stop receiving maintenance updates, or that the next version will be released under different opensource license, that has more restrictions [Opensource licenses in a competitive environment]. What would be the stakeholder decision ?
