IDC MAPs - Market Advisory Portfolios

Meet Our Team

Al Gillen
Program Vice President, System Software

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

Gard Little
Research Manager, Worldwide Services and Emerging Services Opportunities

Jean S. Bozman
Research Vice President, Enterprise Servers

Matt Healey
Research Manager, Software and Hardware Support Services

Mitsuhiro Iriya
Market Analyst, Software & Security, IDC Japan

Matthew Eastwood
Group Vice President, Enterprise Platforms

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

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

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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.