At a recent Forrester event, firm VP Kyle McNabb advised enterprises to considering hiring programmers who work on open source projects. “When looking at your talent, ask software developers if
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In a webcast, Forrester principal analyst Jeffrey Hammond warned that enterprises that don’t embrace open source development and technologies could face extinction. He said that open source has allowed innovation