open source market

The market for Linux products and services will grow from $2.4 billion in 2007 to $7.7 billion in 2012. Growth will slow down from 36% in 2008 to 17% in 2012.

When Sun announced new storage appliances today, the company lined up partners from A to Z in the open source market, including Alfresco and Zmanda, reports The VAR Guy.

Moderator: Dennis Byron This session will present-in a question/answer format-an overview of ebizQ research findings into the various ways that open source software enables both infrastructure and applications ...

Seeking Alpha looks at Sun Microsystems' involvement with the Ubuntu distribution.

"When Sun Microsystems (JAVA) acquired MySQL for $1 billion, it instantly gave Sun credibility in the open source market.

But Sun isn't stopping there. In recent weeks, Sun has quietly increased its bets on the fastest growing version of Linux in the market.

And it isn't from Red Hat or Novell. Rather, Sun is preparing to certify more of its servers for Canonical's Ubuntu Linux.

Recent interest towards FOSS from the Russian government has boosted commercial activity in this field. No longer than a year ago there was no single large company that would say it is capable of doing FOSS system integration projects.

Now there are three, and the number will probably grow.