Open source: 'World's largest software company'
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| The Standish Group found 11 per cent of all new commercial software
| requirements are satisfied by open source solutions and components. That
| figure doesn't include application service providers (ASPs) that use open
| source to service their clients.
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http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39201838,00.htm
Accurate market share statistics and The $60 Billion dollar question
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| One of our Editors, Carla Schroder mentioned that the headline could just as
| easily be "Consumers and businesses save $60 billion, and have money to spend
| on useful things, instead of predatory overpriced software licenses" and a
| reader wrote it could be titled "Innovative corporations have saved over $60B
| by switching to Open Source". Because if we're going to spin it, we might as
| well spin it our way right? Who's to say that the huge markup in sales price
| by Microsoft hasn't resulted in many of Microsoft's customers having to get
| by posting smaller than usual profits. Wouldn't that cost the IT industry
| money? A ton of money is my bet.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/102102/index.html
Related:
Source of the revolution
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| According to Ghosh, the notional value of Europe's investment in
| free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) today is Euro22bn,
| representing 20.5pc of the region's total software investment.
| Spending on OSS stands at e36bn and accounts for 20pc of software
| expenditure in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8105
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