Stand-alone Open Source software expected to have big growth

We have a mixed world here at Pelago where we do primarily Open Source development, but have a combo office with Macs, PCs, Windows Server 2003 and Linux. If there is ever a comparable Open Source option we definitely go that route first. It allows us to modify it for our needs and doesn’t have prohibitive licensing. It looks like Open Source vendors can expect growth over the next few years:

The market reached $1.8 billion in 2006, and will grow 26 percent annually for the next four years, the firm predicted.

The full story is here at Yahoo! news.

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