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Computer Business Review: Linux Grabs 75% of All Open Source Investment

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 5, 2006

“The Linux operating system is the recipient of 75% of all
vendor investment in open source software, according to a new
report from the Harvard Business School, which also indicates that
vendor support for open source is primarily motivated by boosting
their proprietary offerings.

“The preliminary draft report suggests that $2bn was invested by
vendors in open source software between 1995 and 2005, with $1.5bn
plowed into Linux, $317m into the Firefox browser, $76m into the
OpenOffice.org productivity suite and $48m into the MySQL
database…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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