standish group

Free Software Magazine: "A report by the Standish Group indicates that adoption of ‘open source' has caused a drop in revenue to the proprietary software industry by about $60 billion per year.

That's not a huge amount of money compared to what has been lost though the misselling of mortgages, but it is still a lot."

The report itself discusses The Standish Group's research study of the top 10 drivers that are influencing decisions on how IT is adopting open source technology, and very little on the size of the open source ...

Socialized Software: "I have been trying to digest two unrelated stories from last week. The first was the report by the Standish Group on the $60 Billion dollars open source is purported to be costing the proprietary software industry..."

conan1989 writes to tell us that a recent report from the Standish Group is claiming that open source is costing the traditional software market somewhere in the neighborhood of $60 billion per year in revenue.

"MySQL Marten Mickos has often spoken of "taking a $10 billion market and making it a $3 billion market." If you consider that open source has taken out $60 billion of traditional software revenues there will be a bloodletting in the proprietary world soon enough.