Open-source vendors to do a report in Wednesday, referring to some large enterprises have realized, they do not pay a large sum of money to enhance productivity and 增强 system security.
"Open source software such as we are talking about is becoming mainstream," Reidenbach Solutions Senior Manager Patrick said.
Open-source software began as a free software marketing. It is readable source code for the people to provide a copyright license or informal agreements within the public domain software. This allows the user to modify and improve the software, and in a modified or amended form.
This is often in an open, collaborative approach to develop. Open source software is the open source development of the most prominent examples, and are often used to compare and user-generated content.
Standish's report pointed out that the adoption of open source closed source software industry, leading to annual income fell about 60 billion U.S. dollars.
And sales of proprietary software vendors with different modes of expensive licensed software, open source vendors to support the way the product to make a profit.
Companies currently use open source software include the telecommunications industry, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, a number of local banks and business process outsourcing (BPO) company, the software is mainly used for back-office operations.
"For some companies, information technology costs can be as high as 50% of the budget," Toland said the United States Gaerlan company.
He said the investment in expensive software to handle this type of work does not make sense, because the software often become obsolete within a short span of three years. "This is a long-term costs, will never stop," he said.
At the same time, Reidenbach President that the use of open source software may be higher than those of its patents related to 5 to 10 times cheaper. Because open source easy to modify, it is more "consistent with people's needs."
He said the quality of open source software is almost not a problem, "in fact it even better than the expensive software." But the lack of understanding of the benefits of open source software, which is impeding the use of their products because, Reidenbach pointed out that .
"Big companies (proprietary software companies) will have larger budgets," he said, so they lead the market and become more apparent.