Michael Skok

Our Panelists Dries Buytaert Founder
& CTO Acquia

Our Panelists Ron Hovsepian CEO
Novell

Our Panelists John Lilly CEO
Mozilla

Our Panelists Mårten Mickos SVP
Sun Microsystems

Our Panelists John Roberts CEO
SugarCRM

Who Responded?

Who Responded?

Who Responded?

2008 2009 Good Good Bad
Bad

2008 2009 Lower acquisition &
maintenance costs Lower acquisition & maintenance costs Access to code libraries Superior security Freedom from vendor lock-in Freedom from vendor lock-in Rapid pace of innovation Better quality software Freedom of DIY Access to code libraries Community support Rapid pace of innovation Superior security Freedom of DIY

database (52%) operating systems (36%)
business intelligence (28%) WCM (22%)

office productivity security tools ERP
/ CRM

experience

38% 31% 9% 9% 9%
5%

Which will have the greatest
impact on Open Source vendors?

21% 28% 4% 56% 53%
2% 15% 29% 22% 57% 1% 13% 0 - 25% 26 - 50% 51 - 75% 76 - 100%

28% 21% 56% 53% 72%
79% 2% 29% 15% 22% 57% 1% 13% 71%

~80% believe In 5 years…
~ 80% believe spend on open source will be > 25%

~80% believe In 5 years…
26 % believe spend on open source will be > 50%

future