Follow Up to ‘Open Source Business Intelligence In an Economic Down-Turn’
Michael Schiff over at Enterprise Systems Journal seems to agree with my last post
http://www.esj.com/business_intelligence/article.aspx?EditorialsID=9261
Prediction #3: Open Source Growth will Accelerate
Economic pressure will accelerate the growth of open source technology as well, especially as open source has now established itself in production deployments. Because many vendors are utilizing source technology in their applications in order to reduce costs or, as in the case of several data warehouse appliance vendors, partnering with open source business intelligence and data integration vendors to offer a more complete solution, the growth will be seen in both standalone and embedded environments.
