- Developers
- Fewer frustrations
- Still find that proprietary
software does some things better
- Need to deal adeptly with
Open Source community
- Consultants
- Opportunity to bring OSS
into dealings with clients, who will need advice about what to
do
- Danger of losing face if
not informed
- Training / teaching establishments
- Low cost, high performance
environment
- Lots of juicy new technologies
in which to train people
- Teaching establishments
have an opportunity to let students participate in real, as opposed
to invented assignments
- Software houses
- Wider choice of tools
- Potential to lower cost
of development
- Reduced / shared risk
- Licencing issues (cuts both
ways)
- Trend away from licence
revenue to service/support offerings, applications management
and systems integration
- Product vendors
- Multiple sources of "commodity"
software components
- Lower cost
- Faster time to market
- Buyers of software products
/ services
- Wider choice
- Lower cost
- Flexibility
- Control
- Users
- Need for good manuals and
training
- Need for well-trained in-house
support
- Need for desktop / configuration
management
- Consumers
- Don't care what technology
is employed as long as it works
- Lower cost
- Better functionality
- Better reliability