Weakening Economy Good for Open Source

The presentation below summarizes the findings of the 2008 Future of Open Source survey led by North Bridge Venture Partners in partnership with Acquia, Ingres, SugarCRM, Sun and Ubuntu. The results were presented at the 2008 Infoworld Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco as part of a panel discussion led by Michael Skok, general partner at North Bridge Venture Partners.

Following are various key findings from the 2008 Future of Open Source survey:

  • Approximately 81 percent of respondents feel the economy’s turbulence
    is „good“ for open source software
  • Respondents revealed that the top three factors that make open source
    software attractive include: lower acquisition and maintenance costs;
    flexibility/access to libraries of community-developed code; and freedom
    from vendor lock-in
  • More than 55 percent of respondents believe that in five years 25-50
    percent of purchased software will be open source vs. proprietary
  • The Web Publishing/Content Management market is expected to be most
    vulnerable to disruption by open source in the next five years
  • Respondents expect the Security Tools be least vulnerable to
    disruption by open source in the next five years

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