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You are cordially invited to participate in the second ITI Community Debates (IC Debates) on Apr 27th 2010 under the on open source vs commercial software.

ITI invites more than 100 software companies including "Microsoft" in Egypt to participate in April Debate to discuss the claim that the battle has ended and that Open source software has won.

The debate has already started on our website, and currently votes now are distributed as 79% prefer Open source against 21% that support closed source.

http://debates.iti.net.eg/Pages/FrontEnd/DebateDetails.aspx?debateId=2

You can participate now and change the results and be one of the leaders to visualize the shape of the future software market. Start now by submitting your Vote, Comment and Read readers’ comments.

Appreciating your instant feedback and we are open for more question concerning the debate.

More about the Debate:

In 2008, and to determine the industry standing of open-source software, Gartner asked more than 50 analysts to comment on the state of open source in their areas of research. The results were as follows:

·By 2012, more than 90% of enterprises will use open source.

·By 2011, open source will dominate software infrastructure for cloud-based providers.

·By 2012, software as a service (SaaS) will eclipse open source as the preferred enterprise IT cost-cutting method.

Now in 2010, open source software is part of many proprietary (closed) source products; does it mean that open source will continue to penetrate more companies? and Is this an indication that open source will dominate the software market?