Michae l Skok

Our Panelists

Dries Buytaert Founder & CTO Acquia

Our Panelists

Ron Hovsepian CEO Novell

Our Panelists

John Lilly CEO Mozilla

Our Panelists

Mårten Mickos SVP Sun Microsystems

Our Panelists

John Roberts CEO SugarCRM

Who Responded?

Who Responded?

Who Responded?

Good

Bad

2008

Good

Bad

2009

2008 2009 Lower acquisition & maintenance costs Lower acquisition & maintenance costs

Access to code libraries Superior security

Freedom from vendor lock-in Freedom from vendor lock-in

Rapid pace of innovation Better quality software

Freedom of DIY Access to code libraries

Community support Rapid pace of innovation

Superior security Freedom of DIY

database (52%)

operating systems (36%)

business intelligence (28%)

WCM (22%)

office productivity

security tools

ERP / CRM

experience

5%

9%

9%

9%

31%

38%

Which will have the greatest impact on Open Source vendors?

28%

56%

15% 2%

29%

57% 13% 1%

0 - 25% 26 - 50% 51 - 75% 76 - 100%

21%

53%

22%

4%

28%

56%

15%

2%

29%

57%

13%

1%

21%

53%

22% 79%

71%

72%

~80% believe

In 5 years…

~ 80% believe

spend on open source will be > 25%

~80% believe

In 5 years…

26 % believe

spend on open source will be > 50%

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