90 percent of SaaS providers to use open source by
Cost cutting will lead to the move, said (Gartner)…Open source will be used in the operating system, application server, and at a database level and will make up 30 percent of an application.
Gartner seems to have checked its former open-source blindness at the door, and is now suggesting that 90 percent of all software-as-a-service providers will adopt open source in their infrastructure by 2010.
One big question remains, however: will open source provide SaaS’ free lunch or will there be a quid pro quo? With AGPL and the Open Software License, it will be the latter. With 20th century open-source licenses, however, SaaS gets a free ride.
The more open-source software we want, the more open-source software we should be prepared to pay for, whether in cash or contributions. This is a fair exchange, and will provide the basis for a robust SaaS software economy for many, many years to come.
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Of course it will. Open source is the foundation of software innovation in the 21st century.
