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CIO confidence; a dead cat bounce?

At a time when banks are shedding IT roles by the dozen, it seems counter-intuitive that 83 per cent of the nation’s chief information officers should report they are confident about the future of their business to the extent that 45 per cent expect to hire IT staff in the first six months of the year. The question remains – is this a dead cat bounce?

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No license payments lure, as open source on the rise!

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IDC believes the net effect of the emergence of open source enterprise applications will be one of price pressure, in particular in the midsized segment,” and Lykkegaard says the research firm does not expect a “religious war between an open source community on one side and commercial proponents on the other.”

“Rather, it will all come down to a battle over who can provide the customer with the most ERP or CRM per euro," says Lykkegaard.

IDC’s study - Open Source Enterprise Applications in Europe: Disruption Ahead?  examines open source adoption in the enterprise applications market from both a demand side and a supply side, the IDC says the supply side perspective is covered by in-depth profiles of five open source application vendors in Europe, including Compiere, Openbravo, xTuple, SugarCRM, and vtiger.

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