Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software, 2008

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7 July 2008

Mark Driver Ray Valdes Yefim V. Natis Massimo Pezzini Bob Igou Ted Friedman Andreas Bitterer Thomas E. Murphy Mick MacComascaigh Andrea Di Maio Brian Gammage Monica Basso Philip Dawson W Schulte David Norton Michael A. Silver Annette Jump Leslie Fiering Geoff Johnson Jess Thompson George J. Weiss John R. Phelps Nikos Drakos Nick Jones Michael Maoz Milind Govekar Cameron Haight Jim Duggan Gene Alvarez Donald Feinberg David Gootzit

Use the open-source software Hype Cycle to measure the maturity and market saturation of open-source solutions across the IT industry.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

What You Need to Know

The Hype Cycle

The Priority Matrix

On the Rise

		Open-Source E-Commerce Software
		Open-Source Public-Sector Vertical Applications
		Open Source for Customer Relationship Management
		Open-Source Data Integration Tools
		Open-Source Service Management Tools
		Open-Source Technology for Extreme Transaction Processing
		Open-Source AD Testing Tools
		Open-Source Virtualization
		Open-Source Business Intelligence Tools
		PC Linux for Consumers (Mature Markets)

At the Peak

		Open-Source Enterprise Service Bus
		Open-Source Application Life Cycle Management Tools
		Open-Source Content Management
		Open-Source Horizontal Portals
		PC Linux for Consumers (Emerging Markets)

Sliding Into the Trough

		Open-Source Message-Oriented Middleware
		Linux on 16 to 64 Processors
		Open-Source AD Design Tools
		Open-Source DBMS
		Linux on Desktop for Mainstream Business Users
		Open-Source Social Software
		Open-Source Communications
		Open-Source Ajax Tools
		Open-Source Office Products
		Open-Source Mobile Tools (Client Side)
		IT Services for Open-Source Software
		Open-Source Mobile Tools (Server Side)

Climbing the Slope

		Mission-Critical Workloads on Linux
		Open-Source Java EE Application Servers
		PC Linux for Data Entry Workers

Entering the Plateau

Linux on System z

Appendixes

Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels

Recommended Reading

List of Tables

	Table 1.	Hype Cycle Phases

	Table 2.	Benefit Ratings

	Table 3.	Maturity Levels

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software, 2008

	Figure 2.	Priority Matrix for Open-Source Software, 2008

	Figure 3.	Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software, 2007

Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software, 2009
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Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software, 2008
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Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software, 2007
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