This is interesting:

The Open Solutions Alliance (which you might recall as one of the sponsors of the Open Source Census) has released the results of a survey it did recently looking at business trends in commercial open source. The results paint a picture of an industry segment doing well, with a few challenges looming but easy continued growth.

Although most open source proponents probably think of the code’s openness as its best feature, that was not the #1 driver for adoption of open source in the survey participants’ customers. Rather, 79% cited price as the most important reason for choosing open source solutions.

I’m wondering if the library world was consulted in this survey. I find that many library administrators seem to think that if the price is low then the product probably isn’t worth switching to.

Read the entire report at OSTATIC.

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