Linux support will be worth $1.2 billion by 2013
20 August 2009 Pete Swabey
The market for support services for the open source operating
system is growing at 17% a year, according to IDC
The amount of money spent on support for the open source operating
system Linux will reach $1.3 billion by 2013, according to a new report
from technology market researcher IDC, representing a compound annual
growth rate of 16.9%.
That good news for commercial Linux vendors such as Red Hat and Novell
was tempered by the finding that the number of Linux deployments for
which the user does not pay support fees is growing faster than paid
deployments.
And according to the report, that growing number of nonpaid deployments
includes versions of the Linux operating system that are only available
commercially, which implies that some organisations are using the
software illegally.
Another study published this week by the Linux Foundation found that Red
Hat, Novell and IBM are the top three contributors to the operating
system's source code. Linux originator Linus Torvalds is no longer in
the top 30 contributors.
Aishwarya Madineni
IT for Change
Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities
www.ITforChange.net
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