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The impact of recession on open source |
The current recession has tightened spending belts of organisations the world over and most software and services companies are really feeling the pinch. But open source companies appear to be bucking the trend by exhibiting strong growth throughout 2008 and 2009 Q1. A recent Economist article caught the zeitgeist with the headline “Open-source software firms are flourishing” and there’s been a real increase in open source success stories in the media the past few months.
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2009: the year that open source goes mainstream? |
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Many in the industry are looking to open source as one of the few
growth areas during the recession. We don’t like to use terms such as
recession-proof and don’t believe that all open source companies will
necessarily flourish during the recession, but here are some of our
thoughts for the year ahead.
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Autumn 2008 market watch: open source adoption |
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We like to keep a beady eye on the adoption of open source. Here we
review some of the case studies and research articles of note.
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Summer 2008 market watch: now’s the time to think open |
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Our parent company Kineo recently suggested that e-learning doesn’t
play by the economic rules, and is actually going to grow during a
downturn. We think the same will happen for open source, maybe even
more so. Despite the economic doom and gloom pervading the markets,
open source appears to be doing quite nicely thank you very much.
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Summer 2008 market watch: which companies ‘get it’? |
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There is an old adage in open source circles that you either ‘get it’ or you don’t. This month source code analysis company Fortify showed that they are firmly in the “don’t” camp.
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Free resources 