How embracing open source can help organisations overcome tech skills challenges
Good news: the IT skills shortage is over. Bad news: it's been replaced by an IT skills crisis – a humongous human resource deficit that's causing hydra-scale headaches for businesses across all sectors.
Moreover, businesses want to avoid vendor dependencies that mean when one of their team leaves, IT chiefs are obliged to find someone with the same product-specific knowledge to replace them in order to keep the systems running, adds Whiten. The inability to keep up with fast moving, complex software landscape was identified as one of IT chiefs' biggest skills challenges in aThere's another option to provisioning IT that combines in-house and outsourcing, where a third-party enterprise-grade solutions specialist works closely with a business's own tech teams.
In summary, organisations new to open source benefit from having a tech partner to help them understand the critical differences between an open source project and an enterprise product, Whiten explains."Naturally, with general-purpose open source you could deploy it without paying anything. Red Hat experts might well recommend the same upstream source code," he adds.
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