Computer world UK is reporting that open source software could save the IT industry $1 Trillion each year in software costs.
This article is a bit technical and some readers might have their eyes glaze over if they try and read it so I've condensed the article to once sentence:
Open source software works and can save the Information and Communications Technology industry $1 Trillion.
The article provides a more detailed summary:
"The $1T per year figure is extrapolated from the statistics that world-wide ICT is expected to top $3.4T USD in 2008 and because 18%-30% of all ICT investments, predominantly based on proprietary software because that is the dominant model of the industry today, are dead-loss write-offs."
So if you are a small business owner how does this affect you?
Before shelling out a bunch of money for Microsoft of other proprietary software consider some of the open source alternatives. A good place to start is http://www.osalt.com. Or contact a local IT consultant that specializes in open source software.
