The Open Solutions coalition, vendor-neutral consortium, dedicated to driving interoperability and adoption of total open solutions, has released the outcome of its 2009 Prophecies Survey.
Anthony Gold, President, Open Solutions coalition ; vice chairman and General Chief , Open Source business at Unisys spotted, ”The results of our yearly Prophecies Survey surface the common trends in the open solutions market. By picking up input from leading firms working day-in and day-out with firm software and integrated solutions, we are expecting to supply the market with a gauge by which to realise where the opportunities and challenges can be discovered in the new year.”. Polling high-ranking open source business middle management on their forecasts for the next year, the OSA survey results point to new opportunities and challenges for the commercial open source software industry. OSA members remain upbeat the industry will continue its worldwide expansion, echoing sentiments from the 2008 survey.
This year, the industrial crisis will play a part in the adoption of open solutions, and members agree that software delivery strategies and bringing Net 2.0 functionalities to the co.
will be supreme as we venture into a New Year.
The yearly survey poses questions to the number 1 managers at OSA member firms to surface forecasts for the year to come. OSA represents more than twenty companies working in the commercial open source software market who collectively talk to thousands of CIOs and business executives throughout every year. Queries included in this year’s survey concentrate on opportunities and challenges for open source ; president-elect Obama’s result on the IT marketplace ; and the sustainability of open source business models in an unpredictable business environment.
Highlights from the Survey include : Opportunities and Challenges The commercial environment will lead to a rise in adoption of open solutions due to their suppleness, scalability and worth.
Also, some OSA members warn clients not to be almost convinced to put projects on hold till the economy rebounds ; companies can appear before their competition after the downturn by making an investment in open source and enabling projects to proceed and outperform the contest. Other opportunities surfaced from the once a year Prophecy Survey include demand in the presidency and higher education sectors.
Some say this could be due, in part, to the general public spending which will be used to ‘fuel the economy. ‘. President-elect Obama’s result on IT Industry Members principally agree the way President-elect Obama conducted his campaign offers hope the central authority will start leading in the adoption of new technologies. Some members say that it is up to the commercial open source industry to ‘connect the dots’ for the new administration so they can successfully deliver on initiatives in healthcare, clean-tech and open presidency. Software Delivery and Business Models The subscription and software-as-a-service ( SaaS ) models will keep helping consumers who want to pay for what they use, according to OSA members.
Members also agree the service and support model of many open source software corporations will hold up this year, but that cash streams will need to be enhanced by delivering additional price to consumers.
Members also say the lines between the consumer and corporation computing experiences will continue to obscure, and that SaaS and cloud computing will dominate how we use software.
The winners and losers in 2009 Members believe that Google and Amazon will continue to lead thru creativity in the cloud, and that exclusive exclusive sellers will struggle to find their edge in a fast changing software market. Other losers cited by members in the next year will be “nice to have” software solutions. The Open Solutions coalition ( OSA ) is a nonprofit, seller neutral consortium dedicated to driving the interoperability and adoption of total open solutions. Set up in 2007, it is supported by leading firms from across the world who are dedicated to improving interoperability among software products, leading to integrated and quickly deployable solutions for business users.
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