Gartner predicts
Speaking at an afternoon session today at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, FL, Gartner research vice president Mark Driver estimated the probability that four key enterprise open source trends would come true as follows:
- 80 percent probability: By 2010, 75 percent of mainstream IT organizations will have formal open source acquisition and management strategies.
- 80 percent probability: By 2008, open source software solutions will directly compete with closed source products in all software infrastructure markets.
- 70 percent probability: By 2010, mainstream IT organizations will consider open source software in 80 percent of their infrastructure focused software investments.
- 60 percent probability: By 2010, mainstream IT organizations will consider open source software in 25 percent of their business software investments
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Last modified 2005-10-21 08:47 AM
Last modified 2005-10-21 08:47 AM