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VIRTUALISATION No license payments lure, as open source on the rise!
VIRTUALISATION No license payments lure, as open source on the rise! | No license payments lure, as open source on the rise! |
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| by Peter Dinham | |
| Sunday, 21 June 2009 | |
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IDC says that despite a lack of license fees and less cost of total ownership, the main inhibitor inhibiting organisations from adopting open source applications are concerns related to the level of software support and the quality of open source software. Bo Lykkegaard, research director, European enterprise applications and services at IDC says that "in an enterprise applications market in which large vendors boast a 10% market share, adoption rates of 9% and 7% appear very high," and, he adds, “usage can mean anything from departmental use or niche use to enterprise-wide deployment.” “We expect the majority of users of open source enterprise applications to use commercial enterprise applications at the same time. Despite this reservation, the survey results show that open source adoption in ERP and CRM has reached a critical threshold and should now make a 'bleep' on every vendor's radar screen, particularly for those that compete in the midmarket." According to Lykkegaard, IDC sees vendors of open source enterprise applications attracting equity investments, with heavyweight leaders and growth rates typically above 20% per year, sometimes much higher.” CONTINUED page 2 |
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