Asia-Pacific organisations are increasingly turning to open source software to help them cut costs, according to research undertaken by IDC.
The analyst group found CRM applications, database management and virtualisation software were most prominent open source varieties from two reports titled, Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Open Source Software Adoption in 2009 and Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) Open Source Software Adoptions: Customer Case Study respectively.
Australia’s northern neighbour, Indonesia, for example has 34.5 per cent of respondents planning to deploy an open source CRM application over the next 18 months.
"Verticals like distribution services (13.0 per cent), infrastructure services (12.1 per cent) and public sector (11.8 per cent) plan to deploy open source for CRM applications within the next 18 months", IDC Asia/Pacific Enterprise Applications Research market analyst, Ridhi Sawhney, said in a release. "The public sector has started to consider open source not only because of obvious benefits from cost reductions, but also with an aim to build an ecosystem, lower the entry barrier, and promote open source adoption.”
The push for open source has also been noted by Google Search Appliance global product manager, Cyrus Mistry,, who said the success of the Google Search Appliance business is dependent on the open source developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) community.
Fellow IDG publication, InfoWorld also recently painstakingly selected its Bossie Award winners - the best open source software for business.
IDC had not returned requests for comment by time of publication and did not provide Australian specific figures.
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