A recent InfoWorld feature set Zack Urlocker to thinking about “how so many good innovations have snuck into IT through the back door, the side door and under the radar of what management officially approved.”Indeed, Urlocker is discussing open source but he also points to prior instances — think PCs in the mid-80’s — in which departments and employees took it upon themselves to bring in the technologies they needed. “I suspect this phenomena is wide spread,” Urlocker writes in Guerilla IT? Sounds like open source. “So one good step to encourage Guerrilla IT to be effective is to find out what open source software is running in your shop and why.” Related: Guerilla IT: How to stop worrying and learn to love your superusers. Software Development