When to upgrade to an enterprise version of the open source software you love

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'Free' may get the job done in the short term, but the long term health of your code - and of your operational systems - must be taken into account

Open source software crossed into mainstream enterprise IT years back. One Red Hat survey found just how far open source had come in 20 years: ranked as strategically important by 95 per cent of us...

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