“IDC researchers at Government Insights (GI) suggest that open
source products–software solutions distributed under a public
licence allowing any programmer to tinker with the underlying
code–are poised for significant growth, fuelled in particular by
the public sector. Overall the report predicts a 30 percent
compound annual growth rate (CAGR) as part of total global IT
spending over the next five years.“‘Government software needs are unique because governments
perform a unique function–service to the citizen,’ said GI
researcher Shawn P. McCarthy…”