2008 Future of Open Source survey

Some key findings:

• Approximately 81 percent of respondents feel the economy’s turbulence is “good” for open source software
• Respondents revealed that the top three factors that make open source software attractive include:
• lower acquisition and maintenance costs
• flexibility/access to libraries of community-developed code
• freedom from vendor lock-in
• More than 55 percent of respondents believe that in five years 25-50 percent of purchased software will be open source vs. proprietary
• The Web Publishing/Content Management market is expected to be most vulnerable to disruption by open source in the next five years
• Respondents expect the Security Tools be least vulnerable to disruption by open source in the next five years

The full survey results can be downloaded from here.