This report examines the commercial implications of open source in content management. Its focus is on the vendors that have tied their business models to the availability of open source code and the customers that are willing to engage financially with these vendors. This generally means paying for support contracts, commercial versions of open source products, or other vendor-provided products or services. This report investigates these models and analyzes how this affects the content management sector overall.

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This report contains analysis of venture funding in open-source-related vendors in 2009 based on The 451 Group’s database of more than 450 funding deals, beginning with the investment in Cygnus Systems from Greylock Partners and August Capital in 1997. We also include the results of a snapshot survey of private investors, designed to complement our previous survey of the sentiment of private investors toward open source, and the likely impact of economic conditions on investment in open-source-related vendors.

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This report examines how open source software vendors spend and invest in sales and marketing, what seems to be working, and the key factors involved. It also considers the ways in which non-open-source firms are borrowing techniques from open source – through free versions, SaaS and cloud computing distribution models, and bona fide communities of developers and users – forcing the open source players to further differentiate their offerings and drive successful sales and marketing.

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This report includes a survey of more than 1,700 open source software users and customers, assessing their current attitudes on the key benefits of open source software, including cost and flexibility. It also includes a comparison with a similar survey conducted by The 451 Group in 2006. The report also serves as a practical guide for understanding the financial benefits of open source, and includes an updated version of The 451 Group’s previously published guide for calculating the financial benefits of open source in enterprise IT projects. It provides IT managers, architects, vendors, investors and others with a basic financial analysis approach and calculator to identify and capture the costs and potential benefits of open source software.

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This report provides an overview of the data-warehousing vendor landscape, as tracked by The 451 Group, and examines the business and technology trends driving this market. It identifies 10 key technology trends in data warehousing and assesses how they can be used to choose the technologies and vendors that are best suited to a would-be customer and its specific application.

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This 451 CAOS report examines the claim - perpetuated by both proprietary vendors competing against open source and some within the larger open source community seeking limitations - that open source licenses are proliferating out of control. Instead, our research suggests that the abundance and variety of open source licenses has helped open source software and the vendors that choose it by providing flexibility, effective development and distribution, and the ability to mix open source with proprietary code and licensing. Furthermore, it appears there are, in fact, fewer than a dozen open source licenses accounting for nearly all enterprise use of open source. This report identifies those licenses and explores why they have emerged among dozens of others as the most popular choices. By analyzing the open source license choices among enterprises and talking with vendors and users regarding their decisions, we also uncover the characteristics that drive preferences for specific licenses.

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Venture Funding for Open Source 1997-2008 Vendors building businesses around open source software are attractive targets for private investors. This report assesses the history of private investment in open source vendors between 1997 and 2008, as well as investor motivations, exit strategies and the likely impact of economic conditions on future investment opportunities.

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What are the hurdles, benefits, opportunities and risks to using open source in mobile software? How will it stack up against proprietary, sometimes entrenched, competition? What about adoption in the more mainstream consumer device market and the mobile enterprise — will open source present challenges or opportunities for vendors that choose it?

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This report assesses the development, licensing and revenue-generation strategies used by vendors that market products and services based on open source code. The report is also designed to assess the impact that open source license choice, development model, vendor licensing strategy, revenue triggers and sales models have on each other in determining the overall business model used by businesses selling products and services based on open source software.

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This report considers the role and impact that community Linux distributions such as CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu have on commercial vendors. It also considers the general trend toward more options when it comes to using and supporting enterprise Linux. What do these freely distributed, community-developed Linux distros and additional commercial options mean for the enterprise Linux market?

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This report examines the adoption of open source database software to date and explores what barriers the open source vendors have to overcome to mount a meaningful long-term challenge to the big three. The report also assesses the response of the incumbent vendors to the open source challenge, and includes a survey assessing the attitudes toward open source and proprietary databases among executives responsible for the procurement of database management systems.

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In this report, The 451 Group analyzes the business and development opportunities and pitfalls that the GPLv3 presents, as well as which classes of companies are embracing it and which are, wisely, avoiding it.

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This report explores the challenges and conditions that must be met in order for open source software and its vendors to succeed in the SMB market. In addition to providing guidance for SMBs contemplating open source, it also examines the future trends and opportunities taking shape for open source in this very different market.

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This report examines the impact of open source on the systems management software segment. More specifically, it examines the future of open source systems management and the impact on traditional software vendors and end users. The focus of this report is the emergence of a number of open source systems management vendors and the disruptive impact they may have on proprietary systems management vendors. The report reviews the existing open source systems management players and clearly articulates the similarities and differences among offerings. It also explores the noncommercial angle and leading open source systems management projects that are being rapidly adopted in the enterprise.

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This report examines the trend of proprietary software vendors 'going open.' It pays particular attention to those software vendors in transition that have made, or are in the process of making, a major business-model shift toward open source, and away from their proprietary, licensed software roots. The report attempts to capture the process of going open by looking at these software vendors, examining their own experiences and best practices.

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This 451 CAOS report is a practical guide for understanding and calculating the financial benefits of open source in enterprise IT projects. This report was written for the IT manager or architect, who, often with no background in accounting, is tasked with building a financial analysis for a proposed open source initiative. It includes an introduction to the basics of financial analysis as they relate to the open source adoption process, and a tool to help identify and capture the costs (and potential benefits) for adopting an open source project.

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This report explores the open source stack provider market and examines its relative value. It also explores the relationships that exist between stack providers, open source software vendors, systems integrators and end users, answering the question, "Is there truly a demand for a 'single throat to choke' in the market?"

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