Forrester Research has crafted its own "Five Stages of Open Source Adoption," as published recently in the May 15, 2009, edition of SD Time

A study by Forrester Research suggests enterprises are rapidly moving to adopt Agile application development methodologies, to the point where nearly half of developers surveyed said they use Agile practices.

Really? Did I wake up this morning only to find that Dr. Emmett Brown successfully teleported me “Back to the Future” with his Delorean? Or are the majority of people polled by Forrester that clueless and is Forrester that irresponsible?

"When a Forrester Research representative emailed with the following survey highlights, I was more than a little surprised..." there are some interesting points raised in the comments,

Most businesses that embrace open source are content to consume products rather than giving code back to the community, according to Forrester Research.

Remember back when the primary use for the VCR was recording television shows playing at one time to watch them at a more convenient hour?

At Springsource’s winter getaway this week, Forrester Research vice president John Rymer coined a clever new term to make the open source argument. Lean software.

Forrester's FOSS-hostile survey leaves many questions unanswered

While two thirds of enterprise companies have some degree of interest in open-source, far fewer indicate its adoption is a high priority, according to a Forrester survey of 2,252 software decision-makers.