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Open Source represents a fundamental shift in the software
industry. Open Source is inevitable because it is economically more efficient.
Popular Open Source software, such as the Linux® operating system, is
continuously maintained and improved by large communities of developers
who share information, code and advise over the Internet. The freedom
to examine, modify and re-use source code helps to enhance the quality
of Open Source software and accelerate its rate of development and acceptance.
Open Source is winning in the marketplace because its economic advantages
apply to customers as well as vendors. With Open Source applications,
customers gain rapidly deployable, easily customizable applications, resulting
in a lower total cost of ownership.
• Current statistics reveal Linux growth at close to four times the
rate of growth for the operating system server market as a whole, with
a predicted 30% compounded annual growth rate over the next three years*
• Linux represents the dominant operating system in Internet infrastructure,
running on 31% of Internet servers**
• Apache (which is Open Source Software) is on 62% of all new web servers
purchased**
• Currently 26% of IT managers use Linux, with an additional 11% forecasted
to adopt it within a year***
• Linux server marketplace predicted to be a 4.4 billion dollars by 2003****
*Source: IDC
**Source: Netcraft
***Source: Information Week
****Source: IBM Global Market View
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