Free software will win. Eventually.
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| Making dramatic statements always implies a need to “back” them (or “prove”
| them) with facts, data, statistics. However, a statement like “Free software
| works better than proprietary software” is so broad, anybody can prove it and
| disprove it at will. It depends on which angle you take, which area, and what
| your comparison terms are. However, I would like to add an important keyword
| to that sentence: “Free software works better than proprietary software”.
| That easily-missed word shyly hiding in brackets makes all the difference.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/free_software_will_win_eventually
Proprietary software companies feel the pressure, IT budgets decline, and it's
all good news to FOSS.
Recession Proof Software? Try SaaS, Managed Services and Open Source
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| I wouldn't go quite that far. But I do believe technology investors should
| focus on three markets in 2008. They are SaaS, managed services and open
| source. Here's why.
|
| If the economy slows, chief information officers [CIOs] will surely take
| steps to delay or even cancel big internal IT projects — particularly complex
| application development efforts. In stark contrast, SaaS offerings from
| Salesforce.com and its rivals provide CIOs with predictable monthly costs and
| on-time deployments, and the risk of hidden costs is very low.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/60249-recession-proof-software-try-saas-managed-services-and-open-source?source=yahoo
Related:
Open Source Profits During A Recession
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| Over the past few months there's been a lot of talk about the possibility of
| a recession. And for those of you working in various aspects of the IT
| sector, job security is certainly a concern. This type of financial climate
| change can often lead to a difference in the software buying habits of the
| casual computer user and those in the business world.
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http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200711/ij_11_30_07a.html
Enterprise IT spending is on the decline...Is that why open source is booming?
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| It will be interesting to see how long the economic malaise will persist, and
| what will happen when it lifts. I expect to see open-source companies firmly
| entrench themselves during the downturn, thereby positioning themselves to
| scoop up the extra cash that will flow in the economy's resurgence.
|
| There's never been a better time to be in open source. Why? When budgets
| tighten, companies get smarter with their IT budgets. Smart money buys open
| source.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9818835-16.html
Open source to hit $22 billion by 2010. What this means for Red Hat and Novell
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| Interestingly, this number jumps to $41 billion if you add in the $19 billion
| that enterprises will invest in internal open-source development instead of
| wasting it on proprietary software licenses, according to Morgan Stanley...
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9806036-16.html?tag=cnetfd.blogs.item
European spend on open source software hits 22bn Euros
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| Rishab Ghosh, a senior researcher at the UN University in Maastricht,
| will tell the Open Ireland conference in Dublin that the spend in the
| US on free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) stands at 36bn
| Euros and accounts for 20pc of software spend in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7850
Open source funding: the complete picture
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| In addition to VC funding, we also took a look at the amounts raised
| by open source vendors via initial public offerings. These figures
| are not included in the totals of $1.89bn or $2.02bn, but for those
| that are interested, between them Red Hat, VA, Caldera, Mandriva,
| Turbolinux and Trolltech raised $319.9m via their IPOs.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/02/open_source_fun_2.html
Why do vendors invest in open source?
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| The Harvard Business School has published the preliminary draft
| an interesting report that confirms one thing we probably could
| have guessed - that vendors invest in open source for economic,
| rather than altruistic, reasons - and calculates a number of
| things we probably couldn't - such as the fact that vendors
| invested $2bn in open source software between 1995 and 2005.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/12/why_do_vendors.html
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 e22bn,
| 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
Some Enterprises Will Delay New PCs for Vista
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| Enterprises already planning new PC deployments, as part of regular
| cyclical upgrades, are likely to delay them for 12 months or more
| because of Windows Vista.
|
| The finding is one of several from an In-Stat report issued on May
| 23. In-Stat wouldn't provide a copy of the report, but its author,
| senior analyst Ian Lao, spoke with Microsoft Watch this afternoon.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/some_enterprises_will_delay_new_pcs_for_vista.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
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