Why Open Source Rules for Collaboration Software
Like ERP and CRM before, collaboration is the next big space in software. By the numbers: SharePoint is a billion-dollar business. IBM Lotus is a US$700 million business. Forrester Research claims Enterprise 2.0 will grow to a $4.6 billion industry by 2013.
Collaboration software is evolving to mean much more to its users than it did a few years ago. When it once meant intranet/extranets and content sharing, now it can be described more appropriately as "enterprise collaboration."
Open Source Collaboration Is True Collaboration
We believe open source will be the clear winner in this space because it doesn't seek to own the platform, the protocol, the exchange format or the community.
Open standards help business people avoid headaches specific to hardware, data exchange formats, and protocols. Those become elements of the entire package, and the customers can focus on the business solutions they are trying to solve instead of the processing behind it.
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