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Open Source: Governments Enlist in a Big Way

By Dick Weisinger

Fifty-five percent of US government agencies are involved in Open Source implementations, according to a survey of 218 top IT decision makers across various US government agencies.  And among these implementations more than 97 percent are very positive about the

Open Source: Enterprise usage to double in three years

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source has claimed about 10 percent of all enterprise software used today, and that number is expected to be 15 to 20 percent by 2010. Those are the results of a recent study by Saugatuck Technology. And, as a

Open Source: Following the Cycle From Boom to Bust

By Dick Weisinger

What does the market think of Open Source? That was the subject of an academic study written by a group from the University of Munich. The study found that from a market perspective Open Source has traveled from a high

Open Source: What's it Worth to You?

By Dick Weisinger

The scales have tipped. Open Source has gone from geeky to mainstream. In a survey of security managers, 53 percent said that given two software products with equivalent functionality, that they would choose Open Source over proprietary. 80 percent of

Open Source: 'Free' is becoming more pricey

By Dick Weisinger

SD Times had an interesting observation about how expensive it’s getting to be to buy an Open Source company. Company Buyer Price Year XenSource Citrix Systems $500 Million 2007 JBoss Red Hat $350 Million 2006 Check Point Software SourceFile $225