[ Thanks to Rob Seace
for this link. ]
“Open-source standards will completely reshape the software
industry by 2004, according to a recent report by Forrester
Research.”
“IBM and Dell will eventually triumph, while Oracle and
Microsoft will struggle to cope with a changing marketplace.”
“Forrester forecasts that within four years, all traditional
software vendors will need to change their proprietary business
models to open-source ones, or drastically lower the price of
enterprise application licenses.“