matt lawton

Matt Lawton, Program Director, Software Business Strategies at IDC sent over a few choice tidbits from their survey of open source software vendors , covering their experience selling OSS in 2007.

mjasay writes "IDC has released a report looking into industry adoption of open software. In the study, analyst Matt Lawton stumbles across an intriguing trend: IT departments do most of the services around open source, rather than third-party consulting companies.

While IDC believes this is a bad thing, the data in the report suggests otherwise. 70% of the enterprises surveyed did their own implementations, while roughly 90% supported their own open-source deployments.