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| Accenture Survey Confirms Widespread Move to Open Source Software |
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Research completed by the management consulting firm Accenture has confirmed that over two thirds of global organisations anticipate increasing their expenditure on open source software this year with over 85 per cent of US companies expect investment in open source systems to increase in 2010, compared to 56 per cent of UK companies.
Half of those that undertook the global Accenture survey are fully committed to using open source, while 38 per cent expect to transfer core software to open source within the next 12 months. The survey highlighted that over three quarters of those who responded had cited quality of software over cost savings as the main reason for switching to an open source platform, a significant change to current market perception. Over two-thirds see open source as more reliable than traditional software, and 70 per cent see it as having better security and bug fixing capabilities. The findings represent a turning point for open source, according to Tomas Nyström, senior director of open source technologies at Accenture "Open source has become a high-quality and reliable alternative to traditional products, and is a real choice for businesses, not just a cost cutting measure,". "The platform is growing faster than the total market, and is displacing closed software products." UK firms are more positive about the benefits of open source than their US counterparts, even though fewer plan to invest further in the software. A third of UK companies believe that exploiting the full benefits of open source offers a real competitive advantage over those that remain focused on proprietary software especially for those smaller companies who cannot afford traditional vendor solutions. Clearvision provide services and products for a number of open source configuration management solutions such as Subversion , Git and Mercurial. In particular Clearvision offer:
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