An excellent article analysing the annual survey on the future of opensource (OSS).
A decade ago we adopted open source tools for our products and services (Linux, and Firebirdsql followed by LAMP stack, osCommerce, WordPress, Drupal,Dotnetnuke and Android) for SMEs and Enterprises. Our customers have benefited through lower cost of ownership, licensing issues and vendor lockin. We are actively pursing research on the Android development platform to build our next generation business applications.
Impact of open source
- Tipping point – Whitehouse.gov runs on Drupal CMS
- Ways of doing more with less
- Being recognized as high quality software
- Highest impact on Content Management, Erp, CRM and Database
- Product life cycle releases are smaller
- Innovation happens much faster in the opensource environment
- Lack of formal vendor support is no longer a top concern for buyers
- Increased confidence among enterprises to move top opensource
- Recession has made OSS a lot more compelling for enterprises
- Opensource vendors reported higher revenues
- Cloud and Saas to have impact on opensource
- OSS will represent more than half of their software purchases in the next five years
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