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Open Source Software: The Next Disruptive IT Influence
Saugatuck Technology, Oct 2007, Pages: 30
Open source software is everywhere within user organizations. It is considered acceptable and desirable by user executives for all software categories, in all aspects of the enterprise.
Open source software is sought out, considered and evaluated for more than half of all business software acquisitions worldwide.
User organizations see significant business and competitive value from their use of open source software. Users are drawn to open source due to it’s:
-Low cost of acquisition;
-Independence from vendor release and licensing requirements; and
-Ability to manipulate source code -- even by the smallest enterprises.
As a result, open source software has a large and growing, and increasingly unseen, presence within user organizations. The presence of open source is much larger than previously reported – and getting harder to audit and manage. Low cost and ability to manipulate source code means that open source software is (and will be) integrated into user environments, commercial software solutions, and software delivered as a service (SaaS).
It is this mixed-source, “hidden” presence that will change the nature of business software, the software industry itself, and user IT management, within three to five years. A lack of software standardization, increasingly varied and complex code licensing agreements, community development environments, and vendors’ need to protect intellectually property (and customer bases) mean that user IT and Finance executives will have their hands full with spiralling requirements for managing technology, IT licensing, and vendor relationships. Vendors will have their own pressing issues, from new competitors to their own licensing issues – with vast changes in technology and product/service development methods and costs.
Saugatuck’s latest Open Source research study - including survey input from over 200 user IT and business executives, supplemented by interviews and briefings with more than 20 open source and traditional software and services vendors - reveals the realities and the effects of open source software now and through 2012. This study provides insights and analysis of fundamental changes, and guidance for user and vendor executives regarding what’s coming, what’s not, and what to do about it.
Read this report to learn:
-The extent to which open source software will really erode the presence - and profitability - of traditionally-licensed software within user enterprises.
-The greatest gaps between user expectations of open source software and traditional software vendors - and why current open source vendors are unlikely to bridge those gaps.
-Why hybridized 'open source + proprietary source' development models and software portfolios will be the key to survival and success for software vendors, along with the critical success factors/building blocks for software vendor survival strategies.
-What the top business and technology drivers of open source adoption are for user enterprises and why they vary by company size - but not by geography or vertical industry.
-Why there is no single, over-riding business or technological inhibitor to the adoption of open source software by user enterprises, and what this means to software vendors.
-How the 'management premium' of open source software affects both user enterprises and software vendors
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