Survey results from 2009 Future of Open Source survey, led by North Bridge Venture Partners.

2. Michael Skok

3. Our Panelists
Dries Buytaert
Founder & CTO Acquia

4. Our Panelists
Ron Hovsepian
CEO Novell

5. Our Panelists
John Lilly
CEO Mozilla

6. Our Panelists
Mårten Mickos
SVP Sun Microsystems

7. Our Panelists
John Roberts
CEO SugarCRM

8. Who Responded?

9. Who Responded?

10. Who Responded?

12. 2008 2009
Good Good
Bad Bad

13. 2008 2009
Lower acquisition & maintenance costs Lower acquisition & maintenance costs
Access to code libraries Superior security
Freedom from vendor lock-in Freedom from vendor lock-in
Rapid pace of innovation Better quality software
Freedom of DIY Access to code libraries
Community support Rapid pace of innovation
Superior security Freedom of DIY

15. database (52%)
operating systems (36%)
business intelligence (28%)
WCM (22%)

16. office productivity
security tools
ERP / CRM

21. experience

23. 38%
31%
9%
9%
9%
5%

24. Which will have the greatest impact on
Open Source vendors?

25. 21%
28%
4%
56% 53%
2%
15% 29% 22%
57%
1% 13%
0 - 25% 26 - 50% 51 - 75% 76 - 100%

26. 28% 21%
56% 53%
72% 79%
2%
29%
15%
22%
57%
1%
13%
71%

27. ~80% believe
In 5 years…
~ 80% believe
spend on open source
will be > 25%

28. ~80% believe
In 5 years…
26 %
believe
spend on open source
will be > 50%

29. future