When an open source application or platform gains traction in a company, does the I.T. department necessarily drive that? Not always, as Rich Green, Executive VP of Software at Sun Microsystems,? confirmed for us
in our interview with him. We regularly meet with CIOs of large companies who had no idea that their staffs downloaded and deployed MySQL, he told us. Seeing grassroots adoption of MySQL is one of the most gratifying parts of my job, he added. Early results from a small survey done by OpenLogic appear to support the idea that this often happens because of no formal procedures for tracking open source usage.
