It’s nearly Xmas now, and it’s time to look back and review all the things happend in the year 2009 related with open source world.
According to the blog of EOS Direcctory, there are some clear trends and patterns that can be highlighted:
Govenmental push and push back
In the year 2009, US government pushing Open Source in health care and on the contrary the Swiss government don’t give Open Source a choice, they choose Microsoft product exclusively.
Rise of new Open Source services players
Despite the financial crisis and the economic recession, many new Open Source services companies emerge all around the world and most of them are happy with their healthy pipelines.
Continued consolidation within Open Source
Many smaller and fresh companies with niche technologies been acquired and consolidated with other big players, e.g. Terracotta has acquired EHcache, SpringSource taken over multiple companies.
Commercial vendors continued to acquire Open Source companies
VMware bought SpringSource, Oracle taking over Sun.
Linux has continued to increase its presence
Linux wins the consumers hearts throught mobile phones and netbooks and continued its leading on the server side.
You can read the complete story here.
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