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From a survey during the latest InfoWorld Open Source conference:

"...Respondents indicated that they like the low price that open source offers. But open source was attractive for more than its low price: Respondents also indicated that they like to have access to the source code, as well as freedom from being locked into a single vendor. This means that customers do see a difference between "free of charge" and "open source," and are likely to prefer open-source solutions even when they are offered commercial products for little or no cost..."

"...Perhaps the most revealing statistic was the answer to the question, "In five years, what percentage of purchased software will be open source?" More than half of the respondents said that this will be true for 25-50 percent of software within five years, and another 15 percent of respondents said that an even greater proportion will be open source. This not only demonstrates the increasing acceptance rate of open source, as well as the IT community's internalization of this trend, but also the acceptance of "paid open source."..."

"...open source companies should know that more and more companies are willing to pay for their products and services..."

All very good signs for open source companies. Of course, now that everybody knows that our Digital Asset Management System will be released as open source as well, we are very excited to see what the future will hold.

(Quotes taken from ostatic.com) The survey with its presentation can be found over at acquia.

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