Future of Open Source Survey – Results

The results of the 2010 Future of Open Source survey were presented at last week’s Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, and here are they are in slide format:

While I was at the presentation I captured a few additional tidbits from the presentation that weren’t in the slides. The continued growth of open-source generally was a prevalent theme. For example, did you know that more than 19,000 open-source projects were initiated in 2009? The growth of open-source software in the commercial sector was also noted, and the promotion of open-source projects by commercial open-source companies was cited as a factor. (REvolution Computing promoting the R Project was one example given.) The other theme I spotted was innovation: while lowering costs is still the #1 ranked feature of open-source, access to new methods and the rapid pace of innovation in FOSS compared to proprietary software is now being listed as a critical reason to switch.

R blogger Tal Galili has some other insights on the survey results…

The results of the 2010 Future of Open Source survey were presented at last week’s Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, and here are they are in slide format:

While I was at the presentation I captured a few additional tidbits from the presentation that weren’t in the slides. The continued growth of open-source generally was a prevalent theme. For example, did you know that more than 19,000 open-source projects were initiated in 2009? The growth of open-source software in the commercial sector was also noted, and the promotion of open-source projects by commercial open-source companies was cited as a factor. (REvolution Computing promoting the R Project was one example given.) The other theme I spotted was innovation: while lowering costs is still the #1 ranked feature of open-source, access to new methods and the rapid pace of innovation in FOSS compared to proprietary software is now being listed as a critical reason to switch.

R blogger Tal Galili has some other insights on the survey results, from an R user’s perspective. I recommend checking them out.

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