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Open Source Matt Asay Alfresco
Open Source Matt Asay Alfresco
Open Source Matt Asay Alfresco
Matt Asay
Global Vice President, Business Development
Alfresco
Free: Scary or not?
4
Broad adoption of open source
63
OperatingSystems 34
85
54
ApplicationsSoftware 53
73
75
InfrastructureSoftware 58
90
15
None 27
2
0 20 40 60 80 100
Percentageof Respondents
CurrentlyUsinginThis Budget Year PlantoUseinNext Budget Year CurrentlyUsingandPlantoUseinNext Budget Year
87%
92%
86%
82%
84%
91%
82%
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Better quality, more innovation at a lower price
Why?
65% say open source has
sparked innovation inside their
companies
67% … for lowered costs
“Lower TCO and flexibility to
launch and develop cost-
prohibitive projects continue to be
top reasons for using OSS”
81% … for better quality software
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Should Symbian worry?
Sources: Marten Mickos (MySQLUC 2005); O’Mahony & West, 2005; Mockus et al., 2005
Reality? Vendors make community work
• Time
– Who has time to write (lots of)
free software?
– Answer: Those that are
employed to do so
• Interest
– Who will take out the trash?
• Aptitude
– The higher up the stack you go,
the fewer the developers
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