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Open Source: Growth Rate Accelerates
The IDC has pushed up its estimate for the rate that open source software (OSS) is growing. Their new forecast is that OSS will grow at a 22.4% compound annual growth rate, reaching $8.1 billion in 2013. The main reason cited for bumping up the forecast rate is that over the last 12 months, Open Source has exceeded all growth expectations and continues to grow at a furious pace.
Many point to problems in the economy as a major driver for the boom times happening in Open Source as enterprises look for ways to operate more efficiently and cost-effectively.
OSS Trends pointed out by IDC include:
- Many long-time vendors of traditional-license software are increasingly offering OSS products and deriving significant revenues from support, customization and integration activities.
- Businesses are seeing big changes to the makeup of the software they are using. Increasingly, businesses are blending traditional-license and OSS-license on-premise software with SaaS applications. The new mixture is creating new types of hybrid combinations.
- Outsourcing vendors often prefer to use OSS components as part of the solution that they provide, and this further allows them to leverage OSS to create low-cost solutions.
