The presentation below summarizes the findings of the 2008 Future of Open Source survey led by North Bridge Venture Partners in partnership with Acquia, Ingres, SugarCRM, Sun and Ubuntu. The results were presented at the 2008 Infoworld Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco as part of a panel discussion led by Michael Skok, general partner at North Bridge Venture Partners.

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Here are just a few of the key findings from the survey:

• Approximately 81 percent of respondents feel the economy’s turbulence is “good” for open source software
• Respondents revealed that the top three factors that make open source software attractive include: lower acquisition and maintenance costs; flexibility/access to libraries of community-developed code; and freedom from vendor lock-in
• More than 55 percent of respondents believe that in five years 25-50 percent of purchased software will be open source vs. proprietary
• The Web Publishing/Content Management market is expected to be most vulnerable to disruption by open source in the next five years
• Respondents expect the Security Tools be least vulnerable to disruption by open source in the next five years

See the press release for details about the survey and the panel discussion.