SDN: Is there Money in Open Source Services?

IDC’s Matt Lawton recently released a new report about open source adoption:

“However, project vendors, project partners, and vendor partners need to step up and provide support and attendant services in order to move the adoption of OSS from early adopters to the mainstream. Only 12% of all projects are supported by a commercial software vendor, and, incredibly, less than 1% of the projects have attendant services sourced from service providers.” […]

Wow! Open source is in the enterprise, and only 1% of those off-the-shelf software components have attendant services for them?

Read more on SAP’s SDN…

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  1. Luis-tic616 Avatar

    Yes!, definitely there is a great opportunity just around the corner.

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