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75% of Open Source investment in the private sector is spent on Linux

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Submitted by admin on Wed, 12/06/2006 - 10:48

According to an interesting article in Computer Business Review Online, for-profit companies spend 75% of their investments on Linux, leaving 25% for other open source projects such as Firefox, OpenOffice, MySql, and others.

'If vendors were altruistically motivated to contribute to OSS projects, we would expect to see an even distribution of investments across projects,' noted the reports authors: Marco Iansiti, professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School, and Gregory Richards, managing director of Keystone Strategy Inc.Their research indicates that most investments in open source software are driven by economic motives and are complementary to proprietary software, hardware and service portfolios, something that many industry watchers would have predicted to be the case.
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