Proprietary software an anomaly
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| The majority of software companies make their money by custom
| building software, maintaining software or integration work, he said.
|
| [...]
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| According to the study, just 7 percent of software programmers in
| the US worked for pre-packaged software companies. This is in
| comparison to the 30 percent of programmers that worked developing
| custom software, in integration and support. The majority of
| software programmers, at 60 percent, however, worked in the "user
| sector" creating software in-house for government, manufacturing,
| retail and similar sectors.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1468
Related:
EU-funded project seeks 'quality seal' for open source software
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| The use of open source software is clearly on the rise. The many
| advantages it holds over proprietary software, such as its
| flexibility and adaptability, not to mention cost, have drawn
| many champions from both the public and private sectors, though
| it is not without its drawbacks.
|
| [...]
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| The QualOSS project takes a unique approach to the evaluation of
| open source software by synthesising already available resources,
| such as source code and documentation, as well as data about the
| developer community supporting the software products.
|
| [...]
|
| Europe has long been recognised as being at the forefront of the
| open source movement. A recent study conducted by FLOSSWorld,
| another EU-funded project, reports that 70% of all open sources
| software is developed in Europe, and QualOSS will only contribute
| the Europe's pre-eminence in the field.
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http://ec.europa.eu/research/headlines/news/article_07_04_20_en.html
European spend on open source software hits 22bn Euros
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| Rishab Ghosh, a senior researcher at the UN University in Maastricht,
| will tell the Open Ireland conference in Dublin that the spend in the
| US on free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) stands at 36bn
| Euros and accounts for 20pc of software spend in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7850
Trialing the open source franchise model
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| It appears that a group of European suppliers are giving it a go, at
| least on a trial basis.
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| The Open Forum Europe (TOF-e) has been set up to run until the end
| of May to "test the commercial viability of a framework that will
| allow for more confidence and commercial clarity of the whole
| Open Source process".
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/02/trialing_the_op.html
EU report on FLOSS: "FLOSS saves money"
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070112025016466
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