Open Source Software Penetrate to the core areas of gradually

After years of marketing, many businesses have begun to recognize the open source software with greater productivity, they can lower costs through the use of the results of the collective wisdom of developers. Vigorously implementing the national policy of genuine, driven, users of open source software usage has been further improved. Linux, open source database, open source browser, open source Office, open source Application software The number of users and applications is expanding. CCID Consulting’s survey shows that North, South, East areas of open source software users the highest degree of acceptance, rapid growth in demand in Central China, Northeast, Northwest, Southwest’s open-source software applications are started.

Extend open source software applications, while the depth of open source software applications are also increasing. Open source software applications as the most mature Linux, has received government, finance, telecommunications, postal and other large users more recognition, by some non-critical applications to users gradually penetrate the core business level, such as bank payment system, telecommunications billing systems, securities trading system, enterprise resource planning, have begun to use Linux systems, and made some successful deployment and maintenance experience in large-scale enterprise with core business, provides the basis for the conditions. Also small and medium-level open source database market to obtain more applications that can fully meet the needs of small and medium data applications, as part of its business systems have begun to use open source database.

In the recently held Forum on the open source world, open-source software alliance made from 2008 to 2020 of open source software industry development blueprint. The blueprint to 2020, so that free, open source software into the mainstream software industry. The CIO will most enterprises choose to use FLOSS (that is free, free open source software), and FLOSS will also be a green data center or other core business model to ensure that corporate data services in different systems exchange.

Users pay the software away The current global economic downturn, corporate IT spending will be different degrees of lack of funds into an embarrassing situation, more and more enterprises to control costs and save money, will own research, and support open source software, open source software development related work. Many industry analysts believe that those who are using open source software or companies prepared to reduce the cost of inputs will continue to promote paid and non-paid open-source software applications (see Figure 1).

Has been successfully implemented for a number of open source software companies, the benefits of open source software has already far exceeded the scope of cost savings. Large enterprises gradually began to use open source software, IT system flexibility and the pursuit of economy; small and medium enterprises will also be open source software as the introduction of advanced technology, low cost, efficient IT systems to establish a shortcut. In the past, the advanced technology is often only through authorized to use expensive software to get.

After the bubble burst in the technology, E-Trade Financial’s vice president and chief technical director LeeThompson need to find an efficient and low-cost operating mode. 2001 to 2002, the company’s online trading technology budget was reduced by 1 / 3, “We must act, we will take a calculated per cent, while also developing and selecting a lower cost solution.” Therefore, he began to promote the use by Network Downloaded at no cost into the open source software. The use of open source software, the end of 2002, the company saved 13 million U.S. dollars a year in IT investment.

Now, to reproduce a similar situation again. With the economic downturn, all companies once again facing enormous pressure to reduce IT costs. ChangeWave research done in the October survey also showed that the end of 2008, the global economy will remain depressed in the particular case, the report also pointed out that the enterprise software market will drop dramatically. Approximately 1841 survey of enterprise software buyers, 40% of enterprises believe that they will in the next 90 days to reduce enterprise software investments.