Open Source brings more flexibility and saves cost
The 451 Group just has published their new CAOS report and the (free) results of a recent survey as well. The survey conveys a lot of good messages:
- 47.7% of the companies responding (from US, Europe, Asia, etc.) said that the current economic climate hasn’t changed their attitude towards adopting open source, 46.5% however said they are more likely to adopt open source
- Main reason for using open source is still to save cost (43.9%), but 26.7% also hope to increase flexibility
- Interestingly 38.9% of the people with experience using open source claimed to have an increased flexibility, while 30.6% experienced lower cost as primary benefit
- 58.3% indicated that their expectations concerning benefits were met, while 28.9% said that the expectations were exceeded. So, more than 87% actually are happy/very happy with their decision to use open source
So that’s really good news and should motivate all the ones that are still questioning whether using open source is a good thing.
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