Posted on24 May 2012.
sipmeister writes “Two computer scientists who work for
enterprise software giant SAP have shown that open source is growing at an
exponential rate. Not only is the code base growing exponentially, but also the
number of viable projects. Researchers Amit Deshpande and Dirk Riehle analyzed
the database of open source startup ohloh.net and looked at the last 16 years
of growth in open source. They consistently got the best fit for the data using
an exponential model. Relating this to open source market revenue, Desphande
and Riehle conclude that open source is eating into closed source at a
non-trivial pace.”
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