"The part that we are missing with open source and Linux, and not making the most of is, the IT developer. There is a huge amount of software in our industry that does not come from ISVs, and is not packaged. It doesn't come from the open source community either," he said.

"It is home-grown, IT-developed software. I don't have any stats on this, but I imagine that most of the software used in IT shops across the world, is in fact home-grown."

Now imagine what could happen to the core structure of IT if multiple companies got together and started sharing that source code in an open source fashion, Fink said.

"It would be a pretty complex project, but I think there is huge untapped potential there. We've made tremendous advances in open source over the past few years, but it completely pales in comparison to what would happen if all IT throughout all industry got together and developed open source software to run IT," he said.

Fink believes IT is in a unique position to do this in terms of licensing.