Recently, Gartner study, spread throughout every corner of the global software industry, can be described as "known", the proprietary software vendors, "wishful thinking" and completely disturbed.
Commercial software, mostly proprietary software.Commercial software business purpose is to make a profit.This is, yes.Gartner, the research indicates that in recent years, there are 7 kinds of software development tendencies (trends), come together, resulting in 3 variations:
1, changing the software distribution model;
2, reducing the dependence on the software giant;
3, forcing the software prices.
This situation, what does it mean? Gartner expects in the next 5 to 10 years inside, proprietary software (ecological) of the "profitability" will fall significantly, (private) software buyer's "voice" (or "initiative ") will be greatly enhanced.Proprietary software industry will enter a "profit" period.Why do you say? Gartner believes that the main are the two "development orientation" is causing this "trend."They are: 1, SaaS; 2, open source software (the rise).Gartner research report, is rich in content, reasonable, convincing.All software practitioners, it is necessary carefully (carefully) to study, so as not to lose direction.Here, I do not want to say anything (my heart wanted to say "not nice").
Two years ago, "OLPC program" to the people sharply raised the question: Can create a "low cost" computer? Two years, the global free software movement and highlights the advantages of their own, led to three things:
A, completely free operating system (software package) (eg, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, etc.);
B, low-cost micro-computer (for example, gPC, Eee and the OLPC computer for children, etc.);
C, low-cost ultra-miniature computer (for example, Google's Android smart phone.)
Obviously, A, B, C and 1,2,3 above are interrelated.Thus, we can fairly say: Today, the world of proprietary software, has scenery is not.But still some proprietary software for a large (not small) singing "hymn", described as "behind the times" also.