Sure You’re Not Called the “Outlandish Group”?
by John Paczkowski
Posted on April 16, 2008 at 11:40 AM PT
Get this: A new report from the Standish Group claims that FOSS–free and open source software–is decimating the software market. To wit:
Open Source software is raising havoc throughout the software market. It is the ultimate in disruptive technology, and while to it is only 6% of estimated trillion dollars IT budgeted annually, it represents a real loss of $60 billion in annual revenues to software companies.”
Quite a claim. A contentious one too, since, according to research outfit IDC, Linux software actually contributed $10 billion to the market and is expected to contribute $31 billion by 2011. The 2011 forecast for spending on the entire Linux ecosystem? More than $49 billion.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, a Web search for “Standish Group”+Microsoft+”sponsored by” didn’t return any documents.
Comments
John, you are not reading the material. Your implication that Microsoft sponsored the Standish Group study makes no sense. Perhaps you are a Microbasher but your posts seem to be written by someone not subject to Microhate. I suspect your just caught up in all the bad data in all the other posts your using as sources. Go back to the original source and get the facts. Thanks.
Posted by Dennis Byron at April 17th, 2008 at 3:55 amActually, Microsoft has a long and well known history of funding and publicizing research to support its competitive claims.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=235
http://svextra.com/blogs/gmsv/.....croso.html
http://svextra.com/blogs/gmsv/....._no_t.html
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=462
Posted by John Paczkowski at April 17th, 2008 at 6:48 amOK, so you are a Microhater. If you had read the Standish material before you posted your blogobull you would realize that Standish’s report is pro-open-source. But don’t let facts get in your way.
Posted by Dennis Byron at April 23rd, 2008 at 6:47 am