Peter Dinham
Sunday, 21 June 2009 14:13
Business IT -
Technology
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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.