IDC survey proves open source software as viable business model
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Dave Rosenberg covers an IDC survey of open source software vendors: "The majority of revenue from OSS (59 percent on average) is from subscriptions. In fact, 10 of 21 respondents generated 100 percent of their OSS revenue from subscriptions."