TheOpenAnalyst

I was presenting to a full house at the Pentaho Partner summit yesterday talking about open source’s inflection point. Over the last nine to twelve months, we’ve seen a change happening, what I call the perfect storm for open source:

• Open source software is good enough (and in some cases, better than closed)
• The LAMP stack has been widely proven in IT
• Cost savings of up to 90 percent on TCO
• Global IT budgets are down by 10 percent

The amazing thing to me has been the reaction from closed source companies: They’ve raised their prices.

Open source application adoption | Open Source – InfoWorld

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