Werner Knoblichs foredrag under GoOpen 2009

1. Open Source Software trends
and the impact of the current
economic environment
Werner Knoblich,
Vice President - General Manager EMEA,
Red Hat
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2. 危机
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3. Unprecedented environment
 Budget cuts/staff cuts  Increased demand for IT-based business
services
 Customers contracting
 Preserve key initiatives
 Credit restructuring
 Protect existing and capture
 Entire ecosystem strained new revenue opportunities
The risk is in doing nothing. However...
Unprecedented environment enables unprecedented opportunity.
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4. “The perfect storm”
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5. Facts!
 All the latest reports from Gartner, Forrester, and IDC show that
open source adoption is continuing to grow.
 Approximately 96% of respondents feel the economy's turbulence is
quot;goodquot; for open source software, up from 81 percent in 2008. 2)
 53% of respondents are planning to increase adoption of Linux on
the server and
48% are planning to increase adoption of Linux on the client as a
direct result of the economic climate. 3)
 The longer companies use Open Source
the less important cost savings on licensing and
the more important quality, open standards and
avoidance of vendor locking become 1)
Source:
- 1) Heise, 02/09, Trendstudie Open Source: http://www.heise.de/open/Trendstudie-Open-Source--/artikel/126682/0
- 2) North Bridge Venture Partners, Future of Open Source survey released on OSBC conf, March 26, 2009
- 3) IDC White Paper, Linux Adoption in a global recession, March 2009
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6. Evidence of lock-in ...
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7. Facts!
 90% of surveyed persons consider Open Source applications to
have a good or very good degree of maturity. 1).
 84% of the user state that Open Source meets their expectation. 1)
 Almost 80% of respondents believe that open source software will
make up greater than 25% of the software purchased in their
organization within 5 years value wise. 2)
 Significant increase in adoptions in all areas e.g. DB, OS, BI, WCM,
Web/Internet, Webserver, Systems Mgmt, Development, Security, Desktop, Virtualization, Apps
Server, GroupWare, SOA, ERP/CRM 1), 2)
 Significant increase in adoption in new industries
like public sector
Source:
- 1) Heise, 02/09, Trendstudie Open Source: http://www.heise.de/open/Trendstudie-Open-Source--/artikel/126682/0
- 2) North Bridge Venture Partners, Future of Open Source survey released on OSBC conf, March 26, 2009
- 3) IDC White Paper, Linux Adoption in a global recession, March 2009
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8. New Industries – Governments ...
UK Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan
1. The Government will actively and 4. Where there is no significant overall
fairly consider open source solutions cost difference between open and
alongside proprietary ones in making non-open source products, open
procurement decisions, source will be selected on the basis of
its additional inherent flexibility.
5. The Government will, wherever possible,
avoid becoming locked in to proprietary
7. The Government will use open particular itin take exit, rebid
software. In standards will
its procurement specifications and require into account in
and rebuild costs
solutions to comply procurement decisions and will require those
with open standards. The
Government will support the development of
proposing proprietary software to specify
open standards and specifications.
how exit would be achieved.
Source: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/cio/transformational_government/open_source/policy.aspx
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