So today, I read that Gartner has finally jumped on the open source bandwagon. I honestly thought this was a hold over April Fools joke. Seriously. In my time in the open source community (as well as my time when I actually had a physical office at TechRepublic — the time when Gartner had a majority share of the stocks), I distinctly remember Gartners’ take on open source being a slight guffaw at best.