Atos Origin Predicts Open Source Landscape 62
Rob writes "IT services provider Atos Origin has predicted a forthcoming change in the software
landscape based on the results of a survey it has carried out in conjunction with the UK's
National Computing Centre. The survey, which was compiled through over 140 web-based
questionnaires completed by senior UK IT professionals in May and June, indicated that
over 60% believe open source will either increase its presence in certain business areas
or be a fundamental component in core IT systems, while
73% expect open source to develop within their organizations' IT strategy over the next
five years."
Surprise (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm always a little skeptical of companies that fund surveys whose results jive with their business offerings.
Deploying opensource but what about adding to OSS (Score:3, Insightful)
How do these companies think they will add the OSS community?
How do they think they will be supported? (Yes, lame question, I know how OSS support model works, but still, a company manager thinks in terms of support contracts)
80 people being interested in OSS is a trend? (Score:2, Insightful)
They're asking the wrong people... (Score:3, Insightful)
Blinders (Score:2, Insightful)
So 23% interviewed/surveyed worked in Redmond?
Seriously, you'd have to be still using only a typewriter, to not see the increase of open source in day to day business. (Although, most home users would be suprised at how many aplliances in their homes already run open source software, so why not biz users too.)
Re:Then why is it that ... (Score:2, Insightful)
Well, they knighted Sir William, after all.
I did a survey (Score:2, Insightful)
The overwhelming response was "yes" thus confirming my thesis.
Well done, SCO (Score:3, Insightful)
From the article:
Meanwhile, there was a clear leader in terms of the perceived inhibitors for open source adoption, with the lack of long-term support scoring 33%, ahead of legal issues related to intellectual property and copyright (21%), and a lack of understanding of the benefits, and a lack of clarity on potential return on investment (both 19%).Since -- as far as I know ? -- there is still not ONE case of an open-source project having lost a case of IP violations, we can conclude that SCO did its FUD job very well.
Cheers!
--Go Debian!