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… better fund the existing open-source projects, go far to legitimize open source further a massively improve software implementation efficiency.
Paying Off the Influencers to Diminish Open Source
Naturally, the corrupt closed source vendors and consulting companies don’t like this, which is why they fund faux research entities like Gartner to try to convince corporate and government buyers not to use open source as we cover in the article How Gartner Undermines Open Source for its Own Benefit.
Open source has enormous successes in code, databases, operating systems, and many more — however, when Gartner creates a Magic Quadrant, they …

… If Vogue or a hip designer says something is in fashion, then it is. There is no logic necessary because they are the ones who others look to tell them what is and what is not in fashion.
This is precisely how Gartner functions. They don’t bother providing evidence, they are the elite, and they decide what is or what is not fashionable. If one analyzes Gartner‘s history of accuracy, as I have and cover in the article Disregarding Gartner’s Deeper Technology Insights and Predictions. However, virtually no one bothers to check their track record, so Gartner

… this way, McDonald’s can be viewed, as other fast food companies, as taking advantage of the lack of nutrition knowledge. This same pattern applies to ERP vendors and their customers. 
McDonald’s Versus ERP Systems
As I cover in the book, The Real Story Behind ERP, ERP systems have no history of paying back their investment, but all of the ERP vendors, the ERP consulting firms, and analyst firms that are paid large amounts by ERP vendors (like Gartner, Forrester, and IDG) all agree that you MUST have an ERP system.
ERP is the McDonald’s of enterprise software.