Survey: Half Of Enterprise Software Will Be Open Source Within Five Years

“A survey being released today at an open source conference in
San Francisco shows that 56 percent of respondents predict that
more than half of the software purchases made by businesses and
other enterprises over the next five years will be of open source
software. The organizers of the Open Source Business Conference
2011 say that this is because customers have overcome their
reluctance towards using open source, such as concerns about
licenses, and are embracing its virtues, such as flexibility, lower
cost and avoiding vendor lock-in. The survey also identifies growth
opportunities for open source in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS),
cloud computing and mobile markets, which are growth areas for IT
in general.”

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