Hi all:

Roger Burkhardt is president and CEO of Ingres.
A look at a few 2009 open source market predictions that he
believes will re-shape the software market in the coming year.

1. As the economy worsens, adoption of open source software
will increase .

2. Open source adoption will accelerate across the full
infrastructure software stack and into applications.

3. SaaS and cloud computing solutions will grow and pull
open source with it.

4. Mergers and acquisitions of open source vendors
will continue.

5. Competition from open source will drive proprietary software
vendors to take the first steps in changing their business
models.

6. Open source stacks will emerge from strong market
partnerships.

7. Systems integrators will guarantee first-year cost savings
for migrations to open source.


Read the entire blog at
http://www.ddj.com/linux-open-source/212700284


thanks
Saifi.