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Worldwide Revenue from Standalone Open Source Software Will Grow 26% to Reach $5.8 Billion by 2011, IDC Research Indicates

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Amy Konary
Program Director, Software Pricing, Licensing, and Delivery

Matthew Lawton
Program Director, Software Business Strategies

Stephen D. Hendrick
Group Vice President, Application Development and Deployment Research

Matt Healey
Research Manager, Software and Hardware Support Services

Melinda-Carol Ballou
Program Director, Application Life-Cycle Management & ITMS

Mark Levitt
Program VP for Collaborative Computing and the Enterprise Workplace

Jean S. Bozman
Research Vice President, Enterprise Servers

Al Gillen
Research Vice President, System Software

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ONGOING ANALYSIS

Over the last 20 years, a phenomenon has evolved in the software industry that is now emerging as a fundamental shift in how software is developed and distributed: open source software. Open source software touches the very heart of the software industry - how software companies can make money. The open source software movement has significantly upped the ante for commercial players. Companies now must compete based on their business models, in addition to other traditional forms of competition. Today, the software industry is characterized by an ever-changing mix of excitement, caution, hype, confusion, experimentation, failure, and success - thanks in no small part to open source software. As the open source movement expands up the software stack, nearly all software markets are now being impacted in some way.