Novell News

Gartner has just put out a Top 10 tech trends for 2008 and beyond. Open source expansion is one of them. In the next four years, Gartner sees open source elements in 80 percent of all commercial software. That's a really big number. The business value of open source, in terms of flexibility and cost, as well as the compelling leveraged cost of open source as a development model, are really driving the space forward. We're happy to be smack in the middle of this key trend, not only with SUSE Linux Enterprise, but also with our participation in open source projects around identity (Bandit), collaboration (ICEcore) and other areas.