2011 Future of Open Source study; presented at InfoWorld Open Source Business Conference Keynote Panel: Tom Erickson, CEO, Acquia; Adrian Kunzle, Managing Director, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture, JP Morgan; Mike Olson, CEO, Cloudera; Jim Whitehurst, President & CEO, RedHat. The panel was chaired by North Bridge. More than 450 respondents took part in the 2011 survey, including representatives from both the vendor and non-vendor communities. Respondents were asked about a wide range of issues impacting the open source software (OSS) landscape, including: economic impact on OSS, key drivers and barricades for OSS adoption, and suggestions for building and maintaining a profitable OSS business model.
For the first time, supporting the fact that open source has truly gone mainstream, end users accounted for 60 percent of the survey respondents and the quality of responses continues to increase, spreading across all levels of IT management from developers to a large number of C-level executives. Respondents have identified SaaS, cloud and mobile as the main areas that will have a dramatic impact on open source and that are driving growth.
The open source customers are now more focused on maturing technology issues, including improved operational excellence around areas such as support, product management, feature functionality and return on investment. This is in contrast to earlier years where the survey had pointed to things such as the legal implications of licensing and conforming to internal policies.
56 percent of respondents believe that more than half of software purchases made in the next five years will be open source.
95 percent of respondents noted that a turbulent economy continues to be “good” for OSS, though for the first year ever, lower cost has been overtaken by freedom from vendor lock-in as what makes OSS more attractive.
When asked about revenue generating strategies likely to create value for vendors, 56% of the respondents said that an annual, repeatable support and service agreement was the most likely.
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Is a turbulent economy
good (goodfor)
or
bad (badfor)
for Open Source?
13. Is a Turbulent Economy Good or Bad
for Open Source?
13
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Good Bad
2009 2010 2011
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What makes Open Source software
most attractive?
“quality”Better Quality Software….
Lower Acquisition Costs… “lower”
Abundance of Code…..…. “abundance”
Flexibility…………............. “flexibility”
Rapid Pace of Innovation.. “rapid”
Superior Security…………. “superior”
Vendor Freedom……….... “vendor”
15. What Makes OSS Attractive?
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Lower costs
Freedom from
VENDOR Lock-in
Access to code
libraries
Lower costs
Superior security
Freedom from
VENDOR lock-in
Lower costs
Freedom from
VENDOR lock-in
Rapid pace of
innovation
2008 2009 2010 2011
Freedom from
VENDOR lock-in
Lower costs
Flexibility
17. Top Barriers to OSS Selection
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Lack of internal technical skills
Unfamiliarity with open source solutions
Lack of formal commercial vendor support
126
122
98
responses
84
65
Legal concerns about licensing
Does not conform to internal policies
18. What Sectors will be Disrupted by OSS
Over the Next 5 Years?
22
Mobile
OS
DatabaseMOST
LEASTERP/CRM
Office
Productivity
Business
Intelligence
19. How is the use of OSS Components impacting
the Manageability of Applications?
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More
Less
None
29%
24%
47%
20. 26%
20%
14%
15%
17%
8%
Top Vendor Revenue Sources Today
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Custom
Development
Support
Subscriptions
Ad-hoc
Support
“Closed-source”
Licensing
Value-add
Subscriptions
Other
17%
25%
7%
20%
18%
9%
4%
+ 2
Years
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Which of the following will have the greatest
impact on software delivery for OS vendors?
“software”Software-as-a-Service.......
Mobile Devices………….... “devices”
Private Clouds……………. “private”
Public Cloud Computing.... “computing”
App Stores………………... “stores”
22. Impact on OSS Vendors?
31
SaaS
Private
Cloud
Public
Cloud
App Stores
Mobile
Devices